David R. Ellis Quotes

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

David R. Ellis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 8, 1952 - January 7, 2013

Topics

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It's just about working on everything, perfecting everything, like my 3-point shot or ball handling.

Joel Embiid

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That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.

Andrew Wiles

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If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.

Maurice Greene

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I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

John Travolta

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I love houses. I'm not sure why.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

Martin Winterkorn

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If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

Michael Specter

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New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation.

Dick Williams

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California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

Christopher Isherwood

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It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

Christopher Lasch

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Confucius

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I'm a painter in sound.

Brian Eno

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