But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
George ClooneyRead
It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.
Interpretation
Quality in filmmaking is heavily dependent on the foundation of the script.
George Clooney's quote emphasizes the critical role a well-crafted script plays in filmmaking. It suggests that while a skilled director can still produce a mediocre film from a good script due to various factors, the reverse is not true; a poor script limits the film's potential regardless of the director's abilities.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the importance of screenwriting in film classes.
But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something you have to constantly reassess, and asking yourself what you are going to do next makes it a good, long full journey.
I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.
I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life.
I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.
Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after a number of books I've learned that the more time I spend on the outline the easier the book is to write. And if I cheat on the outline I get in trouble with the book.
I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.
The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.
In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.
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