Quotes About Adaptation

In 'Requiem for a Dream,' the director Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s lower-depths novel, Jared Leto has lost so much weight, he looks like another person altogether.

You pick what your customers want, not what your entrenched business model may require you to do.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

People don't realize that being eco-friendly doesn't require radical changes. It's not an all-or-nothing thing. Really, it's about very simple, little changes you can make. You can still be into fashion, care about what your skin looks like, or think about what bag you're going to carry that day. You just learn to incorporate better choices.

Technology is going to be good for football, but it will take time to adjust. The important thing is that the games have rhythm; at the beginning, it will be complicated, but there are plays that require it.

Politicians have become extraordinarily conservative, but our times require imagination and bold action.

I want to do more roles that require a large level of preparation and that are completely different from who I am.

Although I play a modern-day girl in Brahma,' there are portions in the second half that require me to shed that image.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.

Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.

Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school.

They should be required to be in less events; there should be less events for the women. It seems it takes an actual meltdown on the court or women quitting the game altogether before they realize there's a need to change the schedule.

Life for me in Los Angeles required medication. I spent nine years being sad and down in the dumps. L.A. doesn't work with my chemistry.

I'd say it was always in me - it's just what's required of you is very different in the moment that you become leader. When you're part of a team, you defer, and you're there to support your leader.

The best American manufacturers customize products to meet customer needs, reduce the time required to make them and constantly improve their design.

The consolidation that we started in 2009 was clearly the requirement of that time.

If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

I have always donned different looks going with the requirement of the roles I played.

We have been making changes continuously. You cannot expect everything to be perfect the minute it is made. Things change; they are dynamic as you progress. The requirements change. Demands change. So you change with that.