Gavin Hood Quotes

'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

Gavin Hood

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CharacterBalanceGameOpportunities

I look at all the ingredients of a film and say, 'Is this a positive thing that I'm putting into the world? Is there honor and respect in the way the story is being told about them? And would they approve of that?'

Jessica Chastain

PositiveRespectWorldStoryHonor

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Robert Louis Stevenson

LifeChallengeQualityGrowKnow

There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.

Jeffrey Kluger

WorkFamilyYourselfPeopleEnergy

The strength of 'Peep Show' has always been that that it's quite traditional, but it's obviously presented in a very new way.

Robert Webb

StrengthNewWayAlwaysNew Way

Beauty pageants in general are foreign and noxious to me: I can barely muster the energy to put on lip gloss and mascara.

Michelle Dean

BeautyMeEnergyI CanLip Gloss

If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't love... So when somebody's coming up to me, or they're writing, they're in the same space I am in.

Joss Whedon

LoveJobI AmSpaceMeWriting

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'

Drew Barrymore

WorkHomePassionDayChanceEnd

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

Denis O'Hare

GreatBookAtheistConfessionRead

There is one kind of judge. There is an independent judge under our Constitution.

Brett Kavanaugh

ConstitutionJudgeKindIndependent

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived.

Antony Beevor

OpportunityWarInformationWillOut

For me, taking care of your skin is the most important step. You can cover it with all the makeup you have, and it's still not as nice as beautiful skin.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

BeautifulStepMeMakeupCareYou

'TTM' started off being a feature. A producer wanted me to just hop on the beat, like a Diplo type of thing. When I recorded the song, I liked it a lot, and I figured, instead of them paying me to do this, I'd rather just use this for my project, and we can just get money together.

PnB Rock

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