Brandon Jay McLaren famous quotes

There are moments of levity. I feel like any great drama has moments of levity, or else it just becomes too hard to watch. 45 minutes of just pain and suffering is not enjoyable. We're trying to entertain people.
-- Brandon Jay McLaren

#Pain #Drama #People

I always prefer the character moments. For me, personally, whether I'm shooting the gun or not shooting the gun, I really don't care. I'm the guy who's like, "Whatever you want me to do." But, I really get excited about the character moments that are steeped in emotion when the stakes are high.
-- Brandon Jay McLaren

#Character #Gun #Guy

I would say just the weather in Vancouver in the winter can be kind of unforgiving.
-- Brandon Jay McLaren

#Winter #Weather #Vancouver

Ive seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I started, they would always just fly in L.A. people to do the lead roles.
-- Brandon Jay McLaren

#People #Roles #Willingness

Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, its the best feeling in the world.
-- Brandon Jay McLaren

#Feelings #World #Comedy

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.
-- Brandon Jay McLaren

#Teacher #School #Acting

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.
-- Brandon Jay McLaren

#Pilots

The thing that is uncomfortable is when people kind of stare for a long time and point. That gets weird. Id much prefer someone to come up to me and say something.
-- Brandon Jay McLaren

#Long #People #Kind

Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.

I understood that pain was real and sometimes things didn't last. Sometimes you just had to enjoy it while it lasts and cherish it when it's gone.

There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.

I'd like to do more family dramas.

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.