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Whit Stillman Quotes

It's a challenge for any writer to write beyond what he knows. You get material, adapt it, and do the best you can with it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: January 25, 1952

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Challenge Best You Adapt Beyond Get

You'll find so many of the guitarists from the '60s will all say Lonnie Donegan was the influence.

Influence You Find Say Will Many

Your first job, I tell people I mentor, is managing your affect. Be nice and say nice things. Make it so that the people walk away from interacting with you and say, 'That was fun.' That will make them want to come back and do it again.

Walk Job Fun People You Mentor

To ask a pratfall comedian, a dishes-in-the-face comic like me, to lay back and bring none of that stuff to the script because it doesn't call for it? That's tough.

Me Tough Back Ask Bring Call

Sometimes I feel very young, and other times I feel like the side of a ship that's got a bunch of layers of mussels and barnacles on it.

Ship Feel Young Sometimes Side Got

Mark Wahlberg's, like, 150 pounds! I'm 250 lean. I look like Mark Wahlberg ate Mark Wahlberg.

Look Mark Like Lean Pounds Ate

I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.

Wife Woman I Am Cool Glasses Proud

WikiLeaks' disclosures should be protected under the First Amendment.

First Amendment First Amendment

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

Good Experience People Think You

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

Life Faith Important Human Come

The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.

Change Perspective Small Believe Big

What I love about low-budget movies is my interests and the director's interests and the actors' interests are aligned. No one makes money unless the movie works, and that informs every creative decision.

Love Decision Money Creative Movies

So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.

Change Learn Trying Young Actor Way

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