Quotes About Adaptation

People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.

Of course subjects are changing, and since I started so early in filmmaking, I did my first film at age 19, of course you grow up with your films and you are not trotting the same path all the time.

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

To miss one year is a long time. I've never been in this situation before, and I'm getting as much information as I can about my foot, to see what's the best for me and best for the Rockets.

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other languages they've read. I am a big-time reader, but I mix and match.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

In this [fashion] business you're living in the future a lot of the time.

Don't blame others when something goes wrong. Don't blame yourself endlessly, either. Just find ways to do it differently next time.

When I fail or make a mistake, I ask myself what lesson I was supposed to learn or how I can show up differently next time.

Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now.

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

With enough time, you can get used to almost anything.

Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.

Everyone changes all the time.

If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.

My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

I've learned to do a movie and then not be in that place for a long time.

How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.

I just try to take it as it comes. One autograph at a time.

Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history.