Words matter. These are the best Theodore Melfi Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think math is exciting, you know.
As a director, you’re open to any kind of criticism.
I think if characters change too much, it’s unrealistic; their whole fabric of who they are as a person doesn’t just disappear.
Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it’s just for a moment.
I have to shoot and work out and play and discover all the time.
My wife says I have happy delusions. I’m delusional that way. I just say, ‘This is how it’s got to be, and it’s got to be.’ I don’t take no. I just don’t like no. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. That’s just how I am.
We don’t have parades for mathematicians, we have parades for astronauts. You don’t think about all the thousands of people who worked on that capsule and crunched the numbers and were integral in getting that into space.
The concept of ‘family’ has changed so much. It’s not just ‘mom and dad’ anymore. It’s ‘mom and mom’ and ‘dad and dad,’ and it’s kind of beautiful.
We’re all humans. Any human can tell any human’s story. I don’t want to have this conversation about black film or white film anymore. I wanna have conversations about film.
After a tumultuous 20-year marriage, my father up and left one day, leaving my mother to raise three boys without the means to do so. And yet somehow she did. At the age of 50, she enrolled in nursing school and became a nurse and worked countless overtime hours and weekend shifts just to give us a fighting chance.
To me, there are saints every day. They stand up and help others and live for others and do things for others.
We’re very, very flawed, myself included.
The fact is this: NASA was desegregated by a white male. NASA was not desegregated by a black male. NASA was not desegregated by white women.
I think the commercial world is a lateral step from features. Some people see it as a step down, but I’ve never understood that.
Change is incremental. Change is small.
You have a responsibility to make inclusion a daily thought, so we can get rid of the word ‘inclusion.’
I have a very strict philosophy that if you’re not working out, you’re getting fat.
I try not to write for actors because A, they’re not the character, and B, it’s really depressing when you don’t get them.
A Sunday matinee is a good time for families to go to a movie.
Floyd Thompson, a white man, desegregated NASA. Period.
Life is laughter.
I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.
