Amber Sealey famous quotes

I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.
-- Amber Sealey

#Style #Monsters #Gains

When you're shooting a low-budget movie you're never just the director: you're also in the catering department, and hair and make-up and a part-time grip. I can't even imagine the luxury of not having to keep an eye on every aspect of production while directing.
-- Amber Sealey

#Eye #Hair #Luxury

I usually cast myself in things because acting is how I best relate to artistic impulses. It's what I've wanted to do since I was a child, so a scene usually plays itself out in my head with me performing it. And if I cast myself that's one less person I have to pay, one less person I have to explain my vision to, one less person I have to worry about.
-- Amber Sealey

#Children #Play #Worry

The money for my movies mostly come from talented and generous friends willing to work for almost nothing. As a producer, my job is to get as many people to give me things for free as I could. And most people are kind, and they know how hard this kind of thing is, so they are willing to help how they can, and reduce their fees how they can.
-- Amber Sealey

#Jobs #People #Giving

The sort of movies I make are not ones that can easily be sold upfront, so I have to make them and prove their mettle before I can sell them.
-- Amber Sealey

#Mettle #Prove

People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

The monster London laugh at me.

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income.

It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.