"I was aware of the possible biases you could get as a commercial director, like being too concerned about the technical aspects of the form rather than anything of substance. If you keep working in commercials, you can get trapped in a very superficial way of thinking. I always used commercials as an exercise for filmmaking, like going to the gym."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#Exercise Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Directors Quotes

“Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.”
“It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.”
“I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.”

Source : "Jimmi Simpson Tackles Sorkin's Farnsworth". Interview with James Sims, www.broadwayworld.com. January 25, 2007.
“The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.”
“The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.”
“When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.”
“Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.”

Source : Jon Winokur (1993). “Mondo Canine”, Plume
“Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.”

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