Quotes About Divergence

My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me.

Some players respond to shouting; some don't. Everyone is different, and that is one of a manager's strengths to understand that some don't respond to that.

I want to ensure that I strike a balance between all kinds of films.

And every match is different: you have different opponents, different situations, different conditions. So there's no one approach that's going to work all the time.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.

I won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.

One of the things I have loved so much about the career that I have had is that pretty much every character I have played is diametrically opposite to the one before it.

I always loved playing extreme opposites, whether it's internal or external.

Not every opposition party believes the same thing.

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

Nagini should be played by an Asian. Scriptwriter J.K. Rowling probably searched for an Asian actress because she researched the origin of Nagini.

When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected.

I wanted to stand out from the other kids who had gone to Eton.

The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.

A rigid, one-size-fits-all approach usually ends up fitting no one

The importance of minority does not reside in the fact of its relative exclusion from the majority but in the political potential of its divergence from the norm.

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.

art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.

They were both poles apartOne a ready masterpieceAnother an unfinished art...