J. R. Todd Quotes
I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.
You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not quite going exactly where you think it's going, or expecting it to be going.
I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.
There are a lot of ideas I have that I think would be very marketable and commercial, but they're not as compelling to me as the ones that are unmarketable, uncommercial, and unprofitable.
I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.
When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.
I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.
Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.
Rancher Bundy should've told the feds that those were Mexican cows - who came across the border illegally to seek better grazing opportunities. It was an act of love.
I have literally no idea what it's like to shoot a 2D movie. I'd only shot things that were 7 minutes long with a video camera in my apartment with friends.
I've wanted to make movies for so long. I learned most of what I know from director commentaries and behind the scenes featurettes and criterions.
I assume that people get in trouble when they do a bait and switch, when they say something to get the job and then they just don't do that thing.
Having to act like an adult because I was directing a big movie but also feeling like a child because we had reindeer and big cameras and they had fake snow. I just wanted to go play in the snow.
I will continue to work diligently in Congress to ensure that our veterans receive the benefits and care that they have earned and deserve.
On Veterans Day, we take time to honor those men and women who bravely serve and have served our nation in the U.S. Armed Forces.
The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives.
Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.
Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.
I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.
We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.
Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.
I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions.
Sometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them.
I think people are getting more and more -unfortunately - inured to violence. People are less sensitive to things they should wake up about.
Why not? Why not anything? If God ain’t a God of why nots, than I say ‘Why bother, ’ and I don’t think that’s takin his name in vain, I think it’s tellin the truth about what people need.
Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.
Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.
I feel as though I am ice and he is fire.We are so completely different, yet thesame.
Motivation gets you going Inspiration keeps you going.
The desirable elements of life that appear unreachable to the unambitious serve as mere destinations to the determined mind.
Only in full surrender to the Spirit and to the Writings of God can a man or woman hope to find wisdom, knowledge, or an understanding of Spiritual things.
I learned a long time ago that the two things that most impact our lives are the people we spend our time with and the things we read. Yep. Relationships and reading.
