Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.
I was 17 or 18 when ‘The Twist’ came along, and the rest is history. Sometimes I regret it. I would have gotten more into acting. I would have been more of a legitimate performer onstage like Liza Minnelli. But I got so caught up in the dance thing that I never got into theater.
I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.
It’s just so obscure to take a folk song in a different language and be a pretty well-respected English-speaking rock band and totally take a song and twist it around and have fun with it.
I remember doing my first school play. We were doing ‘Oliver Twist,’ and I was cast as Oliver. It was the first time I ever felt brave and confident and truly happy about something.
When you have kids, things come at you that you don’t expect and you twist and turn to sort it out.
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that’s when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
I’m not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person.
When I hear ‘The Twist,’ sometimes I hear it, and I go, ‘Wow – I really did that song. It could have been anybody, but it was me. Isn’t that great.’
In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver Twist effrontery that stands vulnerably before authority, asking for more or better.
I’ve always liked to dress eccentrically, but as I get older I’m drawn to more classic looks, though I’ll still put my own twist on them.
I don’t like planning what am I gonna say to the crowd. Sometimes the show takes a whole different twist.
For girls who want to get their waistline down a little bit and don’t have any weights in the house, they can actually use a broom and put it behind their necks, lap over it and twist and squat. I do all of that if I don’t go to the gym.
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer’s picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor – no matter what you do, and how you twist it.
We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story.
It’s become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
Because for me, equations and symbols aren’t just a thing. They’re a voice that speaks out about the incredible richness of nature and the startling simplicity in the patterns that twist and turn and warp and evolve all around us, from how the world works to how we behave.
It’s unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they’d like it to fit.
Before I go to bed, I twist my hair so it doesn’t get knotted by morning and cover it with a silk scarf so it stays moisturized. In addition, I tend to wash my hair around once a week or every two weeks, depending on what I’m doing with it.
When I played against Joe Cole, if I was ever less than 100 per cent I’d know about it because he can twist and turn you inside out.
How do you fight when you’re trying to pull somebody’s arms off or twist their head off? That makes for a different kind of fight.
Every twist and turn in life is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself, your interests, your talents, and how to set and then achieve goals.
I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all.
In some ways we describe ‘Boxtrolls’ as ‘Oliver Twist’ if Terry Gilliam had made it. I think he’s an extraordinary artist, and animator.
We need people who are open to doing something with theme, something with a cartoonish twist.
I wish I’d walked out of ‘The Tourist’ with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. I said to the missus after two minutes, ‘He’s her husband.’ An hour and a half’s worth of nonsense later, the big twist at the end is… he’s her husband.
See, it’s kind of like James Bond. There’s a new James Bond every couple of years. Maybe I can do the new ‘MacGyver’ and put my own twist on it.
