Firsts Quotes - Page 221

I think, a lot of times, directors assume that whatever they get from you the first time, whether it be at an audition or on set, is all that you can bring.

He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.

Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around.

It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were looking for.

While we were shooting the movie, we shot in the actual hotel in Hong Kong where it all went down, the Mira Hotel. Laura Poitras was coming to Hong Kong to do a screening of Citizenfour, and she ended up staying at the Mira Hotel. It was her first time back in Hong Kong, and I ran into her in the elevator. Literally I had just finished shooting one day, and I came back to the hotel and she was in the elevator.

When I first moved to L.A., I thought about turning gay. Then I realized none of the guys I was interested in was good enough for me.

One of the first things a typical lesbian learns is that there is no such thing as a typical lesbian.

If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres, he must first - having no ready-made, abstract components such as works and sounds - supply other means to abstraction instead.

I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.

A kid who has just started to lie is taking the first step as a storyteller.

A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music.

John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.

When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.

First of all, I'm not buff enough. I got pushed away from the basket. And even when I didn't, I couldn't get anyone to throw me a pass.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play but I couldn't.

For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise.

When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work and their opinion of my work.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

I made my first mix tape when I was 14.

In war, truth is often the first casualty.