Making Quotes

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

We always started these albums as making demos, that went right on until Scary Monsters.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process.