Quotes About Adaptation

Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that.

We continue to grow, and, just like with countries like China or other countries where we are not doing particularly well, we take a really long-term approach.

English football is really different to football in other countries.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring.

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

Films have to find a way to compress many anecdotes into one, or many events into one. Otherwise there is no way to tell it in two and a half hours.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.

The music I used to make was a lot more rock, so I come from this background of head banging a lot, and it took me a while to figure out how to do it in the context of our music.

Some thought it strange that we incorporated synthesizers in our music but the equipment was there so we just figured out a way to use it.

As we make investments in technology and learn how to automate things, we want our people to learn that and go with us.

It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries.

Our time is a time for crossing boundaries.

We work on our set pieces for every opponent. It's a moment of the game that requires a lot of hard work, defensive and offensively. We try to invest our time in set pieces.

So often in this industry people tell us we've had our day or we've had our time.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.

Remember, the West's rock or pop was created for their languages, not ours.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.