Michael Patrick Jann famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.
-- Michael Patrick Jann

#Sports #Groups #Video
And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.
-- Michael Patrick Jann

#Style #Way #Documentaries
Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.
-- Michael Patrick Jann

#Opportunity #Thinking #Lucky
If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.
-- Michael Patrick Jann

#Trying #Succeed #Decent
Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.
-- Michael Patrick Jann

#School #Knowing #Sides
Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.
-- Michael Patrick Jann

#Night #Light #Feelings

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.
It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated
There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.
The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
Video just accesses international information so much more readily.
I didn't know much about video games.

Michael Patrick Jann famous quotes

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