I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I’m present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step. No man should put their life in someone else’s hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles.
Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.
You’ve got to know your role. I was never built like someone who was 6-9 or 6-10, didn’t have athleticism and became a good shooter. Wasn’t a natural shooter. So for me, it’s being smart. It’s a guy, I used to look at Shane Battier; take angles, play the right way, a winner. Do all the little things.
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
Food scenes in movies are traditionally nightmares to shoot – you just can’t fake eating, and you usually have to repeat it a lot of times to get the angles you need. It’s actually quite a lot to ask of actors, and there’s really nowhere to hide.
If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you’ve never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different – I think that’s masterful.
Because of the vast reach of television, there have been different angles that have been explored showcasing the life of transgenders.
Doing makeup, especially for drag, is all about being aware of the geography and angles of your face.
Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I’d practice in front of the mirror and I’d ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.
I stay out after training and practice hitting balls from different angles just in case the chances come in a game.
Music is very therapeutic and healing, and I hit it from all angles.
We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.
Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.
I think we’ve shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I’ve directed a couple shows on that set and believe me, it’s impossible not to duplicate some camera angles.
I was the last guy I imagined anyone would ever associate with ‘Daredevil,’ but once I gave the character some thought, much like with the ‘Fantastic Four,’ I found my hooks and, I think, some angles on the series that have never been explored.
The nerves with WWE performance is more the live television angles because we have time limits and have storylines we want to get through in that time. You’re going to forget a lot about the spots.
Miranda is extremely tacky. I personally want to edit my videos well, but I have to keep Miranda’s character in mind, so there are bad angles, flashy cuts, and sparkles everywhere.
From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or opportunity from multiple angles; help you balance the tug of the short-term with important long-term priorities; and ask the tough questions you need to know to reach the best solution.
I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I’m always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren’t always in a script.
A couple months before I got the audition for ‘Arrow,’ my husband and I had just sold everything we owned, packed our dogs and belongings into a truck, and moved to Los Angles with a prayer and almost no money. When I ended up booking the role, we both cried from joy and gratitude for a week straight.
Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture from sets of very accurate X-ray measurements taken through the body at a multitude of different angles.
See, to me, rock’n’roll doesn’t have any point. It’s just fun. It has a million different angles and they’re all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.
Vulgar lyrics and suggestive, voyeuristic camera angles do not celebrate a woman’s sexuality, they actually objectify her.
The Trump Administration is working from all angles to bring jobs back to our country by making it a better place to do business.
I can box. I can hit hard. I’ve got different angles.
Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.
I’m trying not to focus on the height of my opponent, just to play my tennis and to open the angles because it’s the most important.
With ‘Captain America,’ you might have three lines of dialogue the whole day. And there are just a million angles and a million set-ups, and it’s tedious.
If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave’s course, but really diagonal to it.
I think the biggest influence on my stand-up would be Chris Rock, in that I love that Chris is basically an essayist, in that he’ll take a subject and just try and attack it from as many different angles as he can.
