Quotes About Adaptation

When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.

I always think like I was born in the country where everybody ate apples. Then I ended up in the country where everybody eats bananas. So now, I eat bananas so long, I'm just remembering the apples.

I tend to look very different with every role that I do, so I don't know if anybody remembers me or recognizes me at all, including people that I've worked with and know really well.

If you were to look at an old 'Betty Boop' cartoon or an 'Out of the Ink Well' animation, there are many things about 'Adventure Time' that really remind you of that, even though it doesn't look like any of those cartoons.

One of my business partners would remind me that no fashion line lasts forever, that we would hit the down curve eventually, and that we needed to look for new brands that complement the first one.

Entrepreneurs need to be reminded that it's not the job of their customers to know what they don't. In other words, your customers have a tough enough time doing their jobs. They don't spend time trying to reinvent their industries or how their jobs are performed.

You see the rise and fall of Sears and others. It's just a reminder that this can happen to us too.

I had some difficult times when I first moved to Los Angeles when people would tell me I was saying things wrong. I felt different although my mum kept reminding me it was OK to be different.

I have to relearn how to walk again. It's not that you have to reteach yourself. But your mind and your foot have to get back on the same page, and remind yourself that it's OK to do this. You've done this before. It's reminding it what it's supposed to do again.

I think, in history, everything is about the remix.

I'm not going to lie; I'm not a huge remix person.

I love a good remix! Moto Blanco did a great one of 'I Hope'.

When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.

If I just remix and release, no one will listen. I am adapting, changing the song and merging a new song into an old one.

Uber was probably the perfect inflection point of a world that is changing so fast in terms of consumers that are... pushing that button and using the mobile phone as the remote control for their life.

Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries.

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

I really admire the great Japanese artists who could change their name three times in a lifetime. You could get rid of one and renew yourself.

The founder of Dell found ways of delivering Hewlett Packard's most profitable products for much lower prices but forgot to deliver their quality so within a few years had fallen behind again. Ideas need constant renewal. A great idea will never be perfect and will never work perfectly in all markets and all seasons.

When rock loses integrity it's time for renewal.

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

I embody the renewed monarchy for a new time.