Leitch Quotes & Sayings

There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job. — David Leitch

Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings. — Alber Elbaz

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers. — David Leitch

The longest journeys start with the smallest steps. — Cherie Blair

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling. — David Leitch

His [brother in law Jim Hampson] appointment to the Episcopal parish in Wenham, near Gordon College brought them in close touch with leading evangelical faculty members in their pews and church leadership, including Elizabeth Elliot and Addison Leitch. They were instrumental in drawing Jim and and Sarah into the cutting edge of evangelical intellectual leadership, with friendships with Tom Howard and J.I. Packer. My ongoing relationship with Jim Packer, FitzSimons Allison and many other brilliant Anglican evangelicals would not have happened without Jim Hampson. His early influence on me in my transition from modern to classic Christian teaching was immense. While I was trying to demythologize Scripture, he was taking its plain meaning seriously. His strong preaching led him to become one of the founding sponsors and supporters of Trinity School of Ministry in Abridge, Pennsylvania ... — Thomas C. Oden

Four years of sitting in your room reading, and now you're out here with the common folk," I say. "What did inspire you to suddenly make the trip?"

"I would have come sooner," she says, brushing her hair out of her face. "You just never invited me. — Will Leitch

Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film. — David Leitch

the public net, populated with random staffer opinions and a whole bunch of irrelevance. — K.F. Breene

True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain. — Will Leitch

Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

This is the very structure of sports journalism: deification and damnation, death and resurrection, failure and redemption. You succeed so you can falter so you can succeed again. We need a rise and a fall. We need hubris and retribution and recovery. — Will Leitch

Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force. — P. J. O'Rourke

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future. — Winston Churchill

While filming 'The Matrix,' we studied how a Chinese fight-choreography team trains actors before production starts so that they can participate in action sequences in a more dynamic way. — David Leitch

The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing. — Will Leitch

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair. — Nenia Campbell

The avowed goal of most college students today is preprofessional training or professional credentialing, even if they have no idea what their profession is likely to be. — Thomas Leitch

The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer. — David Leitch

I consider what I do on Deadspin to be based in the foundations of journalism, yes, based on the foundations of journalism that I have been trained and that I certainly use when I write for GQ and The New York Times and so on. Certainly, I think the language can be a little looser on the web, but I am held to the same standards and accuracy everyone else is. — Will Leitch

As inherently franchise-altering as drafts are, as monumental as they can be in the sport's history, you still can't get past the fact that this is several hours of people wearing suits and reading names off a sheet of paper. The athletes' clothes are entertaining - though not as much as they once were - and there's a warmth you get from watching young men and their families have their dreams come true. But it's still just a televised committee meeting. — Will Leitch

As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance. — David Leitch

I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think. — Will Leitch

You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed. — David Leitch

Be part of the answer, not part of the mess. — Patricia Leitch

The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies! — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

A chain grows weaker with each new link. — Marty Rubin