"And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime."

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Source : Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

#Thinking Quotes #Directors Quotes #Dimes Quotes

“In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.”
“I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.”
“We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.”
“Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call”
“I can generate attention quickly.”
“To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We've got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.”
“Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.”
“I hate to use that term [iPad Killer] since the iPad is probably dead anyway.”

Source : "No Agenda" podcast, No. 177, February 2010.

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