Quotes About Author

Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?

Adapted from the novel by L. Ron Hubbard, who cranked out sci-fi pulp by the cubic ton, 'Battlefield Earth' has the musty feel of the days when the genre's highlight was Flash Gordon.

Within Istanbul, there's a ton of people who are totally hip - like, the hippest people you could ever meet.

I tend not to have a ton of clients at any one time, but some pretty interesting ones.

My dad is in Mississippi. He exited the Navy and made a ton of money as an entrepreneur.

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

'Fortnite' has, I think, the most positive gamer community that's ever emerged from a game at this scale. I think it's partly because of the great community and partly because of the tone set by the game.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

For characters where, in a comic, I'd avoid using screen tone because it's such a bother, I'd deliberately use it in animation in order to highlight their individual characteristics.

I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.

With 'Opening Credit,' we were trying to establish a certain tone and put people in a specific mood.

Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work.

Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.

I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.

I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.

The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence. They only ask you to make it more presentable.

The completely irreverent tone was the thing that won me over about the first 'Deadpool' movie.

I love social media. There are a lot of benefits, and it gives us a platform for what we want to become, but there's always such a negative tone to it. You see a picture, and the first thing you see or think is a negative comment.

'Heavy Rain' was really close to a dark thriller, like 'Se7en.' 'Beyond' is different in terms of tone.

Indian epics are full of violence, and such stories have shaped India. As filmmakers, I don't think anyone in India would tone down violence, keeping in mind the censorship.

'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter.

One of the things I do well - I think, anyway - is combining different tones.