C.L. Grant Quotes
A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.
I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script and potential.
I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.
I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.
I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days.
When I really get invested in something, the one thing that really disappoints me is when it breaks its own rules.
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.
I don't watch the beginnings of many series, I don't know why, maybe because I'm normally working.
The truth that I know for sure is that I may have an opinion, but I do not know the truth, and the other thing I know for sure is that certainty is the root of all ignorance and the root of all evil.
I love motion capture. I think it's the best thing, ever. It's wonderful. It gives you an incredible freedom to just play things out.
Treating success as an option is one of the major reasons why more people don't create it for themselves-and why most people don't even get close to living up to their full potential.
Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives - such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems - are all the result of not taking enough action.
You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.
Don't be confused by what looks like luck to you. Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.
Money is like a jealous lover. Ignore it and it will ignore you, or worse, it will leave you for someone who makes it a priority.
The future is going to be stranger and more various and more dynamic than anything people can imagine now. We will be extraordiarily tested. I wish us the best of luck!
Keeping the ship on course will be the first and most difficult order of business. Everyone is going to be piloting their organization through very high waters where things can change in an instant.
Innovation got hip. It got cool. I prefer the people who investigate the world out a brute sense of curiosity, a fundamental sense of play.
Now that everyone is reinventing and innovating, advantage goes to those who keep at it. We need to greet even success with humility.
I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.
I've always been more visual-based. I've kept my musical tendencies kind of in the closet.
With my solo music, often it's just about looking for interesting sounds that may or may not resonate emotionally.
I've always loved music, and I've always sought out the stranger things, even in a record you could buy at the mall.
Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.
I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look.
I have a lot of dislike for the business end of the music business, particularly what they call shopping for a label. It can be a real stupid thing.
I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.
There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.
A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." .
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.
The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.
The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it's the same the other way round. I can't explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored.