David Slade famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Mads has a terrifying subtlety and as the episodes go on, you start seeing the way a person can command other people by doing practically nothing and terrifying the sh*t out of you. He is the most astonishingly subtle performer with the most incredibly keen sense of what his face can do and how his words can form. He has a mission. Nothing is by chance. I truly believe as long as we have success in seasons that Mads will become the defining face of Hannibal Lecter.
-- David Slade

#Believe #Long #People
Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs and you're usually best listening.
-- David Slade

#Listening #Needs #Film
I've always been very, very supportive of fan cultures. I'm a fan of all kinds of things.
-- David Slade

#Supportive #Fans #Culture
With a DVD, you want something you can own, you can watch, you can come to grips with and you can explore. It's something larger than the film, when it's going out to a fan base.
-- David Slade

#Dvds #Want Something #Fans
I don't do commentaries on films because A) I'm not very good at it and B) it's an odd thing that I discovered, on my first film, that you go through this really intense experience of making a film and then you sit in a little room with a monitor and you reduce the thing to a bunch of silly anecdotes. It's really unfulfilling and I've never really enjoyed listening to them anyway, so I just don't do them.
-- David Slade

#Silly #Listening #Rooms
As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.
-- David Slade

#Directors #Want #Difficult
As the director, you're meant to be critical and you are, so there are loads of things. But the thing is, the way I look at it is, to try to get some measure of success, it's dangerous to look at financial or critical success, or positive response as a measure.
-- David Slade

#Trying #Way #Directors
There's this point between conscious and subconscious when you realize you were asleep and resting, and you were having all kinds of anxiety dreams about the film and all the things that can go wrong. You get in this hypnagogic state, where you're waking up and realizing, "Oh, it was just a dream."
-- David Slade

#Dream #Anxiety #Waking
It's good to know where you've come from.
-- David Slade

#Knows

I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.
The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
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.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

David Slade famous quotes

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