Quotes About Adaptation

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.

The first thing we need to do is realize that some of our old beliefs are dysfunctional and no longer work, if indeed they ever did. If the desire to do that isn't there, there's nothing to do.

When you're in the studio, you've got a narrative for what goes on, you might switch on a bit of gear and it might not work as you intended or come out a bit wrong, and you try and exploit it.

Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.

When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

Business and leadership is about the future. What worked five years ago is unlikely to work tomorrow.

TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.

Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough.

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

You can't create a work without being aware that it will change dependent upon the context or the society where it is developed or consumed.

If you work on a new product launch, spent time in a new geography, or work to develop a completely new skill, you have no choice but to figure out new ways to solve problems.

You can always figure out how to deliver things in somewhat controlled situations, but when you start to get into the reality of the market you start to figure out what isn't going to work.

I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater I got into work mode.

I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.

I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.