Quotes & Sayings About Setups

If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a single scene and have it take five hours is very good for comedy. — Michael Spiller

I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy. — Andrew Dominik

After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny. — Jhonen Vasquez

There's only one way to prep, so far as I know. You have your script, you hire the people you want, you find your locations and your setups, everybody shows up and you shoot the film. — William Monahan

Your sexual attributes are simply chemistry and setups within your DNA. They are given by agreement as gifts for you to experience in this life. — Lee Carroll

telling the jokes - was the setups. Why were that priest, that rabbi, and that minister walking down that street? Where were they headed? How had they happened to come together? What odd chance had put ex-presidents Bush, Clinton, and Carter on that same plane? — Donald E. Westlake

More bungalow-type setups. Rent by the week. Artsy places," Zane
explained. "It's different."
"Do I look like an artsy type to you?" Ty asked, bristling on principle.
It didn't even faze Zane. "You look like sex on legs to me. You'll
blend in, no problem. — Madeleine Urban

Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet. In one sense, it's about protecting yourself; in another sense, it's about always being open to surprise, even from the set, because there may be some detail that you hadn't noticed. I think this is crucial. There are many pictures that seem good in so many ways except one: They lack a sense of surprise, they've never left the page. — Martin Scorsese

What invariably distinguishes a good player from a poor one is their respective address positions or setups. — David Leadbetter

Everyone's heard the same joke a million times and knows the setups. They are tired of the mass-marketed entertainment served on the networks. — Tim Heidecker

Every setback is a setup for a comeback! — Joel Osteen

I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human. — Rainn Wilson

A setback is nothing but a setup for a comeback. — Dennis Kimbro

The show with Buckley and Vidal was happening live. There was no editing. There was no delay. So they were aghast. How America reacted is sort of the most interesting thing because as these debates progressed, the ratings were going up. So people began to program these sort of point-counterpoint setups, where two people with opposite sides would come on. — Morgan Neville

There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup. — Gary Vaynerchuk

There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do. — Eric San

Delays,closed doors are not setbacks but setups God uses to move you forward — Ikechukwu Joseph

Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse. — William Raspberry

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. — Bob Dylan

I would agree to some extent that on the Champions Tour that there is a greater premium on putting than the regular tour because of the course setups. — Fred Funk

I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist. — Ed Helms

Your setback is just a setup for your comeback. — Steve Harvey

Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you. — Kevin Leman

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups. — Bill Burr

I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time. — Aphex Twin