"It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go."

-- Leonardo DiCaprio

#Land Quotes #Lap Quotes #Scripts Quotes

“The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare”
“Done is the engine of more.”

Source : Bre Pettis, Anna Kaziunas France, Jay Shergill (2012). “Getting Started with MakerBot”, p.184, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.”
“You can always find time to do the thing you really, really want to do.”
“Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?”

Source : "Powell speaks with forked tongue" by Terry Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2003.
“If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is involved with sport, the players get paid. But these poor kids in college, they're doing it for free, and that's just disgraceful.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“As things have progressed and I've gotten older, I've gotten more and more involved on the producing side. It's been a natural progression. The more you become exposed in a particular medium, the more you can bring to the table and people start trusting you. You're valued a little bit more, so you have more of a voice. It's something I would like to do, through the rest of my career.”

Source : "Chris Vance Talks TRANSPORTER: THE SERIES, Taking Over for Jason Statham, Becoming an Action Hero, the Physical and Mental Challenges of the Role and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 26, 2014.
“I didn't expect a knife, though. Is it the one missing from the kitchen?" "Did Rand report it?" I felt betrayed. Why hadn't he just asked for it back? "No. It just makes sense to keep track of large kitchen knives, so when one goes missing you're not surprised when someone attacks you with it.”

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