My department is to get actors to do stuff.
“My department is to get actors to do stuff.”
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My department is to get actors to do stuff.
“My department is to get actors to do stuff.”
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“My department is to get actors to do stuff.”
“Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story.”
“I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.”
“Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.”
“The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.”
“When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.”
“I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.”
“We in the Department of Homeland Security don't monitor American citizens.”
“In the Justice Department, responsibility for overseeing and directing investigations is lodged in the department's prosecutors.”
“We work in a shop about the size of the paint department of Richard Childress Racing.”
“After my undergraduate, I've written a thesis that was in the government department, but largely, it turned out almost an economic type of thesis. And I was very interested in that, and I wanted to go get a Ph.D. in Economics.”
“I heard 'More Than A Feeling' for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and said, 'Your song's on the radio in the drafting department!'”