I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works. Judd Apatow is fantastic at it. But as an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written.
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Related The greatest thing about having done 'Orange' are the doors that have opened for me, and peo... RUBY ROSE Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm au... ADAM PALLY You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like... DAMON WAYANS, JR. I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, ... SHARON OLDS If you are an Aaron Sorkin fan, and I am, I understand always lamenting his departure. But I also th... JOSHUA MALINA I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it soun... AN NA I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive critic... K. ERIC DREXLER When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song writt... LADY GAGA I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often ... CHRIS HEMSWORTH All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm l... GAL GADOT Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've wri... BEBE REXHA It is an extremely unfortunate fact, that there are those who see the morale of respect as something... C. JOYBELL C. I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I... JACK MCBRAYER Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene... AARON SORKIN Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!'... TAVI GEVINSON Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amaz... BJORN ULVAEUS You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's j... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other p... JOHN F. KERRY I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and director... EMMA STONE I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned... BECK I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me.... DANA FOX In my own home, where I've been able to create an environment that works for me, I'm hardly ... STELLA YOUNG I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of int... IRA GLASS I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. Th... RACHEL KUSHNER I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so impo... FREEMAN DYSON I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signin... SIMON COWELL I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w... SAM SHEPARD I think, first of all, I don't think people understand Ice Cube's body of work. Ice Cube is ... KEVIN HART It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of direc... XAVIER DOLAN I'd like to create a space for people who have a lot of talent but not a lot of reach. EVAN SPIEGEL I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation. PATRICE LECONTE I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was... D'ANGELO Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be sat... AKIRA KUROSAWA I like my films to have a certain amount of realism - something that's thought provoking and int... ARJUN RAMPAL Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly ad... ERMA BOMBECK I still feel like I have a lot to learn in the realm of sound experimentation, and I think I would l... SUFJAN STEVENS I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to... MICHELLE DOCKERY As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go s... MICHAEL FASSBENDER I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, tha... ERYKAH BADU I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don't like that.... JEFF NICHOLS Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But... DAN GILROY I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as profession... BILLY SHERWOOD I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really ... JASON ISBELL Animation tends to have several different writers who serve different functions. I think, on a lot o... KELLY ASBURY I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy ... JERRY B. JENKINS Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally realized around 1995,... CARSTEN NICOLAI There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian chara... KIMIKO GLENN I have been interviewed a lot. I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written ab... KATHIE LEE GIFFORD All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work ... PAULA PELL I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I&... NEIL GAIMAN There are still an awful lot of assets that have been evaporated but not written down. People are lo... AARON BROWN 'West Wing' was huge. Like 'Hamilton,' it pulls back the curtain on how decision-mak... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid st... ADAM JONES I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors -... FRANCESCO CARROZZINI Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't a... ALEX PAREENE Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is... AVA DUVERNAY My favorite song is called 'Reachout.' There are so many different stories told in that song... WYNTER GORDON I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writi... DAVID TENNANT There are a lot of directors out there who are very specific, visual craftsmen, and while I have the... PETER DINKLAGE I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a ... SHEMAR MOORE It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because he's been saying how important it is... DAVID HEYMAN If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of diff... MICHAEL P. ANDERSON I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I ... PETER JACKSON Someone like me, with my height, my look, the sound of my voice, it's been great to play someone who... KRISTIN CHENOWETH It looked like 'The Sound of Music' would even surpass 'Ben Hur,' and I thought it w... WILLIAM WYLER There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away i... FERNANDO PESSOA He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inc... JEREMY IRONS I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys a... NOVAK DJOKOVIC Everyone assumes it is just 'Wendy who works at Tesco' who goes to audition for 'X Facto... FLEUR EAST For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and heari... RANDY WEST Everyone has a different interpretation of characters we know and love from Shakespeare, from 'M... PHILLIPA SOO I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal peo... COLIN KAEPERNICK I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to br... BARRY MCGUIGAN I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven f... BRITTANY MURPHY I like things that are hand made - but personally for a man, I'm not interested in fashion that ... ROMAN COPPOLA As a filmmaker, I wish we didn't have to do trailers at all, quite honestly. I wish we didn'... DREW GODDARD I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nost... JAMILA WOODS I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up.... ANNA WINTOUR I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like. ADRIAN BELEW I am not simply an actor, but also have written books and now directed/written a film, I have some p... DIRK BENEDICT The first thing I would like to say is that I don't think folk at Westminster - or for that matt... MICHAEL GOVE I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It'... ALBERT BROOKS I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just so... CHARLIE ROWE
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AARON ECKHART Audiences like both savory and unsavory characters, and [even] unsavory elements can be attractive. ... AARON ECKHART All these people are so firm on their positions. That's where the humor in the movie comes from, ...... AARON ECKHART For Nick, the game, basically, is convincing people. It's getting people to look at things your way.... AARON ECKHART Nick is a tobacco lobbyist who loves his job and doesn't apologize for it, which [as a role] is exci... AARON ECKHART I think Jason's going to have a huge career, AARON ECKHART Thank You for Smoking. AARON ECKHART the highest regard you can receive. That photo can describe an entire life, just an honor, as well a... AARON ECKHART I'm going to have to stick with the 300 hurdles. There's not a lot of people who can do it and do it... AARON DOBSON The indoor season is definitely going to give me a good jump for outdoor because I'm starting my tra... AARON DOBSON I thought about how disappointed I was. I would admit that after that race I was broken in half. It ... AARON DOBSON Medical amnesty is a good thing. They should always be thinking how to make the code better. AARON DOBSON They (Dublin Scioto) look pretty big. And, it should be a real battle. AARON DOBSON With this being our first home game of the season, everybody was really pumped and ready to play. AARON DOBSON I was just feeling it tonight. AARON DOBSON It is criminal that the Democratic elected officials allowed this country to invade Iraq, and it is ... AARON DIXON Maria pays such little attention to issues affecting the black community. She's coming in here with ... AARON DIXON I do not look at myself as a spoiler. AARON DIXON The people are tired and they want change. AARON DIXON West Nile Virus is here to stay. It's not something to be afraid of, but something to be concerned w... AARON DEVENCENZI We're trying to create a behavioral change. AARON DEVENCENZI One little 5-gallon bucket can create enough mosquitoes for an entire city block. AARON DEVENCENZI With abundant rain and warmer temperatures, mosquito populations could be large. AARON DEVENCENZI Pallets are no longer allowed because they have too many chemicals in them. AARON COSTIC Twenty degrees is perfect for us. When it gets into the high 20s and the sun is out, it starts to af... AARON COSTIC It's one of the cultural events. They give out Olympic medals. There will be eight blocks of ice and... AARON COSTIC Most pieces just depict the finished product. This piece shows the beginning stages, too, and the fo... AARON COSTIC There were 100 ice sculptors there from all over the world. We were given 10,000 pounds of ice and t... AARON COSTIC We have a tower built of ice, and we fill it with wood and light it on fire. AARON COSTIC Don't ever let him near a microphone. AARON COPLAND Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five mi... AARON COPLAND When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who... AARON COPLAND There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is ... AARON COPLAND A melody is not merely something you can hum AARON COPLAND To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. AARON COPELAND The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer w... AARON COPELAND I'm able to use this spring training to really prepare for the season, where normally I'd have to co... AARON COOK