Quotes About Adaptation

Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.

My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.

I didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really want to copy that Meg. We're the same, but we're different at the same time. I wanted to make myself Meg. I didn't want to use somebody else or use a reference.

What we had on was BBC Asian Network and Bollywood sound-tracks - they were my reference points. But of course, where I grew up, I was one of two Indian guys in my school, and I didn't really have anyone else to share that with.

I try to get most of my stuff in so during the week everything is kind of laid out and I understand why our coaches are calling certain defenses, what the game plan looks like in reference to what the other team is doing.

I can't make hard street music for the rest of my life. Your references change.

Renaming a class at one level is really easy; you just change the name. But how do you change all the references to that class and all the imports?

Initially, I'd written a normal love song. Later, I wrote Corona Kannala.' I say cheesy because we used a lot of contemporary references.

You know, I just tend to do the scene that I'm given, really. If it really needs it, then I'll go to them and ask 'What's she talking about? What's she referring to?' But often they don't know, or they do know and they're not going to tell me, so I've learned just to work with what I'm given.

It's important to learn from your mistakes and then to refine.

I allow people to create, but I'm also marshalling everybody, which is difficult for my creativity, as I'm like a referee. Everybody else is kicking a ball. It is very messy. From the mess, though, you refine what is there.

I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.

I was thinking, 'If I go bald, I might do something like Bret Michaels and have it all attached to a handkerchief.'

I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.

I have learned how to better handle things as they come.

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.

I'm not anti-progress, obviously, but I just think progress needs to be a broader thing than just the technology we can create; it's also how we handle it and our level of awareness.

I had an issue with dyslexia before they understood what dyslexia was. One of my teachers, Mrs. Anderson, taught me to look at it like a curveball. The ball breaks the same way every time. Once you get used to it, you can handle it pretty well.

If Lukaku is not as good as others with his first touch, then give him a ball that he can handle.

Acting is a career, and you can't expect everything to work out the way you want. One has to be mature enough to handle that.

When you come to a club like Hibs not everyone can handle it, there's pressure in every single game to get results.

You don't just come in and say, 'Bam, I'm mature; I'm the leader.' It took time for me to grow into this and learn how to talk to certain players and how to handle certain situations.

I have always been able to handle situations well once they've happened to me.

Every guy is a little different, how you talk to him, how you handle him and hold him accountable, every guy is a little different.