Albert Brooks I like to do things that I want to see myself. With ‘Defending Your Life,’ I wanted to see some aspect of death other than angels and the thing that ‘Ghost’ was about, because that didn’t make any sense to me. So that’s the reason: it fills a hole. – Albert Brooks Angels Quotes Aspect Quotes Death Quotes Defending Quotes Fills Quotes Ghost Quotes Hole Quotes Life Quotes Reason Quotes Sense Quotes I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to. I probably learned, being in ‘Taxi Driver’ before I made my first film, I would come to the set every day just to watch how that film came about. It’s like a graduate course: it’s terrific. You talk to the cinematographer during the breaks. You ask the electrician why they are doing this.
Peter Weir With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough. – Peter Weir
Ellie Goulding I keep getting compared to Marina and the Diamonds because she’s kind of in the same place as me at the moment. It’s quite annoying being compared, actually, because it almost downgrades your work and makes you feel like you’re just another female artist. – Ellie Goulding
John Shelby Spong Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence. – John Shelby Spong
Jesse L Martin Law & Order’ was so very interesting to me because what I got to do was explore New York along with getting to work with some of the best actors New York City had to offer. – Jesse L Martin
Maryam Mirzakhani Sometimes, properties of a fixed hyperbolic surface can be better understood by studying the moduli space that parameterises all hyperbolic structures on a given topological surface. – Maryam Mirzakhani
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