Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television. "

Related Quotes:

" All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear. "

" With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious. "

" I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. "

" I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be. "

" What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part. "

" When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way. "

" I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening. "

" When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal. "

" I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. "

" Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior. "

" You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it. "

" As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. "

" One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality. "

" Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like. "

" When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic. "

" The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. "

" People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised. "

" I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill. "

" The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion. "

" I love recording music. "

" I'm a fast writer. "

" I was never really a comic-book fanatic. "

" I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. "