Quotes About Adaptation

It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established.

If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle.

There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along.

The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.

I dedicated most of my life to basketball, and that was my plan until my junior year of college when I got ill and was bed-ridden for eight months. In those months, I wanted to be productive, and I taught myself how to produce music on my computer. When I went back to school, I started taking all my classes in music and DJing a lot.

If you're the most productive person in your community, it's definitely time to find a new community.

Going back to the past is not productive.

I learned, even when all hell is breaking loose, first to take time to make my environment productive.

I definitely had some heated but extremely productive chats with screenwriter Justin Monjo, but while it's my story, it's their movie, so I have to allow for compression and poetic license.

Every summer I kept figuring out what I needed to work on to be productive the next season.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.

I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.

My profession is to change myself according to my role and I work hard on it.

I used to find comfort in food, but can't do that anymore, because of the profession I am in.

Apart from popular actors like Mammootty and Mohanlal, I knew nothing about Malayalam, but I got to learn so many things which became a strong base in my profession.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family.

Different people need different kinds of communication for it to have the same effect. That was something I had to learn.

Since I've been in the NBA, I've played for four different people. I don't know how much more you can go.