"It's interesting because the way J.J. cuts - we're very close with our editors as well, so it's kind of the first cut and then he went back and started tightening things up, etc, then loosing things when it was too tight. Then you start watching it and you start figuring out performance - not performance, character-wise I should say, who you're really able to follow, whose journey is harder to follow, and you make all that work."

-- Bryan Burk

#Wise Quotes #Character Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.”
“I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.”
“Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.”
“Unless you have 100% customer satisfaction, you must improve.”
“If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.”

Source : James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (2008). “A Leader's Legacy”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons
“Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism?”

Source : Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.189, Univ of California Press
“We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.”
“It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family: issues such as power, intimacy, autonomy, trust, and communication skills are vital parts underlying how we live in the world. To change the world is to change the family.”

Source : Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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