Quotes About Beginning

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.

I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning - you know, 'beginning, middle and end.'

All I would say to people who doubt 'Caprica' is: Everything good starts slow.

I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.

I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.

Life starts at conception and must be protected from the first moment.

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.

Mondays are a good day to make statements, not Friday.

My first film was very static.

I never interned. The first job I ever had was a very low-paying job, and the guy running the radio station was so poor, he couldn't pay us sometimes - so it's almost like an internship, right?

First job I had, I was 17 years old. I was primarily the mail room boy at the radio station. An FM station. And in those days, nobody listened to FM.

I don't think this is the end of Oprah, it's only the beginning. I have a feeling that she'll probably have her own station, and continue to do what she does.

In the beginning, my equipment, I would rent them from teamster-types, really. I don't know where they got the cameras - I think from the TV stations. But I don't know if they asked the TV stations.

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

I was in L.A., like, four months, and I got my first part. Then I was like, 'OK, I'm staying.'

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

The longest journeys start with the smallest steps.

Birth is the beginning of death

Only in formal meditation can there be the real beginning of understanding.

But I have forgotten to tell you how I came into the world, and am telling you my father's story instead of my own. You seem to like hearing about it though, and you can't understand one without the other.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

A comprehensively reductive conception is favored by the belief that the propensity for the development of organisms with a subjective view must have been there from the beginning, just as the propensity for the formation of atoms, molecules, galaxies, and organic compounds must have been there from the beginning.