Francis Lawrence Quotes

Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.

Francis Lawrence

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YouDownTwoSomethingGoingHours

I would love to play the villain, but again, it's sort of what happens in this industry.

Joe Morton

LoveVillainPlayIndustryHappens

You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.

Andy Dunn

JobMeStartThinkEndChair

Faultless to a fault.

Robert Browning

Fault

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

Luis Fortuno

ChildrenParentsPuerto RicoWant

I think that connection with humans is so important. Sometimes I'll do this monologue and talk to the crowd, like, 'Come on, let's really connect here.' I don't think a lot of people understand it's a two-way exchange. Some people go to a show and are like, 'Yeah, you make me feel.' That's not how it works.

Chet Faker

PeopleMeThinkFeelYouConnection

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

Brad Delp

MeBookThinkPhoneWonderCry

A lot of times, comedic actors are discriminated against. People just assume they can't do something other than what they do, rather than thinking, 'Oh, wait - doing what they do normally is really hard.'

Brett Gelman

PeopleWaitThinkingDoingHard

What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.

Brian Selznick

MeLookingYouPersonClockMagical

We are now in a situation in which we will have to rely on market forces to maintain a free and open Internet. And nobody really knows whether that will work or not. One thing we do know is we didn't need to do this to ourselves. This was a solution in search of a problem.

Brian Schatz

WorkFreeSearchProblemSolution

You know it's right when you feel this undeniable connection and chemistry.

Ali Larter

FeelYouConnectionKnowChemistry

I do love TV as a medium.

Wyatt Cenac

LoveTVMedium

I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera.

Pola Negri

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