Cutting Quotes - Page 39

• Rhythm is form cut into time.

  Ezra Pound

  Form, Rhythm

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.198, New Directions Publishing

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• Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Kitsch, Causes

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• In 1988, when democracy was restored, the military establishment was still very powerful. The extremist groups were still there. And when the aid and assistance to Pakistan was cut, we had to adopt harsh economic policies. So in a way, it showed that democracy doesn't pay, and the military was able to reassert itself.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Powerful, Military, Extremist Groups

  Interview With Richard N. Haass, www.cfr.org. August 15, 2007.

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• If people are talking about my weight cut all the time and are telling me how skinny I like, you have to respect the audience. You also have to respect all of the fighters who do this.

  Jonathan Tucker

  I Like You, Talking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.

  Cristin Milioti

  Hair, Expectations, Broke

  Source: collider.com

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• Money is a great way to get happiness. Right? Lots of wonderful things you can do with money. The question is, are we really optimizing on that? So, if you think about getting lattes and getting cable. Which one of those is actually giving you a greater happiness, and if you have to cut on one of those, which one would you cut? So, I think thinking in terms of concrete terms would help us a great deal.

  Dan Ariely

  Thinking, Giving, Way

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I don't think we should go around life and being miserable all the time and feel the pain of paying. It's a question of what categories we want to spend more on and what categories we want feel that we are spending too much on and we want to cut down.

  Dan Ariely

  Pain, Thinking, Want

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• The violence you witness is Denzel doing it and we're taking some visual effects and doing some things and you see something happen it's happening in front of you as opposed to cutting away and doing a bunch of tricks. It's in front of you. So it's hard not to make it a hard "R" if you see a guy get punched and teeth wind up in someone's knuckles.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Wind, Guy, Knuckles

  "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks THE EQUALIZER, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes from the 80s Series, and More on Set". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

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• I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Teenager, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It's like you might have some great scene that you love but for some reason - and you can't necessarily put your finger on it - the movie's not working or it seems slow or ponderous in some way, and even though it has your favorite scene in there, actually the favorite scene is the culprit. That's the painful thing about editing, is trying to locate those things that are holding the movie back and then having the guts to cut them. And it is painful to do it.

  Neil Burger

  Editing, Trying, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• Commercials are also any opportunity to meet new crew and work with new kind of rigs. You can explore working with different people without having to make the full commitment of having to do an entire feature film with them and see whether you like them. Also it's great for testing out new equipment, like on the last spot we just did, I used a lot of drone technology, really cutting edge drone stuff, more than I've ever done before, and it worked out really really well.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Commitment, Technology, Opportunity

  Source: collider.com

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• The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it.

  Jeff Vespa

  Mother, Zines, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.

  Anita Loos

  Horse, Thinking, Orange

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.

  Diana Vreeland

  Running, People, Perfect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Where do we end, and what is the self? You cut off your arm, you're still yourself. You cut off two of your arms, you're still yourself. You cut off your arms and your legs, you're still yourself, right? Also, the idea of the self seems to be embedded right around here, right around the eyes. Infants know to look at the eyes.

  Mike Cahill

  Eye, Self, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's the thing about acting - it does have the feeling of downhill skiing. When it's really all going right, you know your lines, you know what's important to your character, you pick the strongest reactions possible to elements in the story. But then you let it all go and you're in the moment and stuff happens. It surprises you and it's super strong; it's like you're living life in a slightly heightened way in the time between "action" and "cut."

  Mira Sorvino

  Strong, Live Life, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.

  David Ayer

  Directors, Firsts, Problem

  Source: collider.com

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• Lego was our fourth film, because we did two Cloudys, so yeah there's a little bit of shorthand that's involved and then you can anticipate things- because for me it's like, I get a script for a movie and I go, "Wow that's a pretty good script", then you sign on and a couple months later they show you the first cut and you're like, "Whoa, how did that happen?"

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Couple, Two, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• With mockumentaries, the conceit is that the characters are being interviewed, so you can start a scene and cut to a character looking at the camera and saying, "I'm working on this project," instead of having to figure out ways for people to talk naturally about what they're doing. You see this problem in pilots - people end up explaining things to each other that they'd never explain in real life.

  Michael Schur

  Real, Character, People

  "An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.

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• Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Couple, Past, Average

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• You find me a Democrat that's for cutting spending $10 and I'll give them a warm kiss.

  Jeb Bush

  Kissing, Giving, Spending

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• Life is a series of decisions that cuts off infinite possibilities at every turn. Most people look at that as a sad unfortunate fact of life. Successful people see it as a source of tremendous power.

  Mark Joyner

  Successful, People, Decision

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• In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

  Adrienne Rich

  Light, Self, Snapshots

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• Cutting corners no doubt makes the job easier for the government, but making the government's job easier is rarely a priority. Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is.

  Wesley Pruden

  Jobs, Fighting, Government

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• [T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.

  Zell Miller

  Government, Reform, Tables

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