Mexico Quotes

I would have killed to do 'Beauty And The Beast' at Warners, which went away. I would have killed to do 'The Witches' at Warners that went away. God knows there are many, many of them. All I can do is diligently do the screenplay, diligently do the design work, deliver a budget, and then await a decision.
I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.
I wrote a screenplay for 'The Witches,' which Alfonso Cuaron was producing, but we couldn't get it made! The studio just wouldn't greenlight that movie. It's my favorite Roald Dahl book, 'The Witches,' because I grew up with my grandmother a lot of the time, and the relationship between the boy and the grandmother speaks volumes to me.
I'd love to come back as the most annoying ghost ever.
I'm a book guy first, and my education came from two encyclopedias. One was an encyclopedia of health, so I became morbidly obsessed with anatomy, and I thought I had trichinosis, an aneurism, jaundice! And then an encyclopedia of art.
I'm a huge David Fincher fan, and to me, 'Zodiac' is a masterpiece. I re-watch that movie all the time.
I'm always very, very careful when the movies happen and where they happen.
I'm fortunate enough that my personal life falls into whack with my professional life. My kids love visiting the sets; they love the monsters.
I'm having a lot of fun on Twitter, tweeting about books.
I'm not that interested in recreating reality. I'm interested in recreating an emotional truth.
I'm very grateful of my life and my career and the movies I've been able to make.
I've been going through immigration all my life, and I've been stopped for traffic violations by cops, and they get much more curious about me than the regular guy. The moment they hear my accent, things get a little deeper.
If you ask me, I alternate between truly bizarre, what you would call 'Hollywood' movies and truly bizarre, what you would call 'arthouse' movies.
If you give an actor a green screen, the shot may work, but that green screen will not inspire you on the set as a director or as an actor.
If you want to know how to handle a crew, it's great to be part of a crew.
In Mexico, you're close to death all the time.
In the case of 'Shape Of Water,' I want it to feel like a song. I wanted people to come out of the movie humming the movie.
Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There's no empathy - none.
It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.
It's never hard to cast kids; it's only ever hard to direct them.
«first‹previous7677787980818283next›last»
Total Records : 1652

Related Books

Author Profile

Votes :
Rating :
AuthorName
Adrienne Gusoff
Profession
Writer
View Profile

Share to your friends..

Related Author

Abraham Polonsky Adam Gopnik Adam Hochschild Adam Johnson Adam McKay Adam-Troy Castro Adrienne Gusoff Agnes Repplier Aimee Carter Akiva Schaffer Al Bernstein Al Feldstein Alan Cheuse Alan Lomax Alaya Dawn Johnson Alec Berg Alethea Kontis Alex Pareene Alex Shoumatoff Alex Steffen
view more

Popular Topics

Attitude Death Inspirational Life Love Motivational Nature Positive