Quotes About Adaptation

When I was in casting, we would bring somebody in, have them read their lines, maybe give them a few pointers, and hire them, and then once they go to the set and you have a director who's directing them, that performance may not be anywhere near what you had in the audition, either good or bad.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

There is hard hitting, but the hitting is not nearly as hard as it used to be.

In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles after nearly a decade in New York. Post-9/11 New York felt different.

Right before 'Nebraska,' I went to Ireland to do this little movie called 'Run & Jump.' It was so far away from home, I felt a real safety to explore a different kind of role. I loved how it turned out.

It's tough coming out of Nebraska, where you're the man and you have to score, to going to the guy that sets the team up and being a role player.

To grow you must understand and admit your mistakes, it is an approach that works for me, it is not necessarily the same for everyone.

I'm just interested in building a company that doesn't necessarily change lives but adapts people's behaviour.

What's casual for a robot isn't necessarily what's casual for a human.

We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever.

If a company is not doing well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a good company.

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

Make no mistake about it: Change is hard, but change is necessary.

Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Innovation is a necessity.

I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Necessity creates everything in my life.

With ShamWow, I had to become my own distributor because no one wanted it. Out of necessity you become something you're not expecting. It was actually a blessing.