Alan Taylor Quotes

In TV, when you come in to direct an episode, you are effectively learning an established language; you then have to try to learn to speak it really well. But on a movie, you are the guy. You are creating the language; you make most of the decisions.

Alan Taylor

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LearningSpeakLanguageLearnYou

Once the principle is there, that cells have the same genes, my own personal belief is that we will, in the end, understand everything about how cells actually work.

John Gurdon

WorkEndPersonalUnderstandBelief

TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills.

John Polson

TimeShortYouPayFineBills

The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.

Steve Coogan

LiveBestPeopleWorldDoingYou

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

Steve Guttenberg

YearMoreScreenOnlyMakeThan

To be an Olympian - not many people can say that. But first of all, I've got to make the team, and I know a lot of hard work is going to go into it, so hopefully it pays off.

Sonny Bill Williams

WorkHard WorkPeopleTeamGoKnow

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Robert Cormier

BeautifulTimeBrainWritingBetter

When you do anything too long, you either wear it out or lose interest.

Miles Davis

LongYouLoseOutAnythingWear

Telling parents in New Jersey you want to act isn't exactly like telling them you want to be a doctor or a dentist. There are no guarantees. It's hard, but all the arts are. Can you imagine the pain of writer's block?

Loretta Swit

PainParentsDoctorYouNewWant

We're into Nicole Kidmans, rather than the young girl who just got married in a tracksuit.

Bruce Oldfield

GirlYoungGotJustYoung GirlWho

I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

Phil Hartman

WritingCompetitiveFoundMuchLess

I'm not sure I ever would write a memoir.

Susan Ford

WriteSureMemoirWouldEver

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.

Pete Sessions

SimpleTaxKnowWayOutDemocrats

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