Simon Testing Quotes & Sayings

I've been extremely lucky to work with Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore over the years, but I've always imagined films with my own scores, because I don't come from that world or that period of filmmaking. And so how could I make up my own score on a film like this where it isn't necessarily made up of popular music from the radio or the period; it isn't necessarily classical music. But what if it's modern symphonic music? — Martin Scorsese

I always like to think that I make movies that are like Nirvana songs. They have a slow verse and then they pop into high gear and then they go back into slow and then they pop into high gear again. — James Gunn

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama. — Jayne Meadows

I refuse to accept anything less than 100% of what I can achieve. — Will Smith

Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints. — Herbert Simon

I want to make each piece of clothing work 15 different ways. — Melissa McCarthy

He's smiling, and I didn't realize how much I missed seeing that smile. He should smile all the time. Forever. At me. — Colleen Hoover

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted. — Macklemore

What gets me is when celebrities aren't allowed to have an opinion on anything political. There's the whole 'Shut up and sing' thing. — Wanda Sykes

Holding auditions in front of an audience is testing. — Simon Cowell

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. — Deepak Chopra

Fear is sweat, but terror is addictive. — Jackie Morse Kessler

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars. — Mickey Rourke