Brilliant Quotes - Page 15

I worked with great, brilliant directors. I've been so lucky. It's terrible to compare anyone, because you can't. But I can just tell you that this experience was just a truly magnificent experience for everyone involved.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

There is a ceiling to it and there's a stigma. Billy Crystal as brilliant as he is, he's never going to be thought of as a contemporary like Alan Arkin.

I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

Theater is so wonderful and brilliant but it lasts very much in the moment. It's there and then it's gone.

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

The story revolved around this universal identifiable fear that we must all have, at some point, when you commit yourself to being with another person, to have and to hold until death do us part. It's a huge thing. I just felt like it was a brilliant examination of what would happen, if the person that you trusted implicitly and thought you knew every follicle and pour of, inside and out, started to not be that person anymore, inside. Physically, they're still there, but they're not there mentally.

I usually find stuff that I hope no one really knows or cares about. If I'm ripping off something that's already brilliant, what's the point?

It's so natural you just fall into it and you find your way. It's terrifying and exciting, and brilliant.

The last thing I thought that was utterly brilliant was the season finale of the last season of 'Homeland'. I was just completely and utterly speechless and I think my friend was poking me going: "What did you think?"

Like I said, when all of that goes away and you just completely lose yourself in the fantasy of it, then that's usually when I walk out of the theatre or turn off the television and just go: "That was brilliant!"

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.

No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.

The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.

I think there's over-telling sometimes, in fiction. For instance, I'm a big fan of horror movies, but I could always lose the last third of them. There's the brilliant exciting scary thing that's going on, and then they have to show you the monster, and the monster turns out to be a giant spider from space and then you push it over and it's dead. It becomes mortal and it has human needs and it always sort of feels like a shame. Maybe because of all the cop shows and such, we're a generation that needs to have problems solved for us in fiction.

J.J. Abrams and Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy, who are brilliant people, so I knew it [Westworld] was going to be amazing.

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.