After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.
A movie that I’ve seen probably the most is ‘Fanny & Alexander,’ the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super long version that had an intermission. I don’t know how much they liked me that day.
I was well under the spell of the old Gold Medal Crime novels when I wrote ‘Savage Season,’ and I wanted to write a modern version of that. I had tried the same thing with ‘Cold in July,’ and I wanted to give it another go.
You really couldn’t do a PG version of ‘Crossfire!’ It just wouldn’t work.
I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.
There’s a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.
There’s no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
In a basic sense, ‘A Little Life’ is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It’s a different version of adulthood, but it’s no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else’s.
What actor doesn’t want to walk around a set and be called ‘Mr. President?’ Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of passage among American actors – our version of playing Hamlet.
George Benson’s ‘This Masquerade’ is my favorite version of Leon Russell’s blue gem.
I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.
The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama ‘Donnie Darko.’ This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a wobbly cannonball of a movie that tries to go Mr. Hughes one better; it’s like a Hughes version of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It’s an alien world to me.
Being authentic is important to me, and I am not going to present this fluff, fake, sanitized version of myself that doesn’t reflect who I am or what my passions and interests are.
There is an animated version of ‘Lazer Team,’ with all the action sequences, that exists. It’s a pre-visual fidelity, and the voice acting is terrible because it’s one of our animators doing it. But we could sit there and watch what the scene is supposed to look like while we’re doing individual shots.
We all have our vanities. The retouching magazines like ‘Vogue’ do is the professional version of the retouching we do when we, for example, apply Instagram filters to the pictures we take and share on our social networks.
When I was offered ‘Hawkeye,’ it was very intimidating at first because that book is so loved and so successful, commercially and critically. The worst thing you could do is try to imitate what they did because, in the end, you’re just going to get a watered-down version of what they did.
The think that we hung the film version all on was ‘Hedwig’ on tour. On stage, it’s one theatre, one show. It just seemed natural to change it. In the film, we were able to go to flashback rather than have her talk to the audience. And we had the play to practice and to see where we had made mistakes.
The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
In ‘The High Low’, in some respects an audio version of ‘Grazia,’ Pandora Sykes and Dolly Alderton wonder whether they missed something in their survey of the Harvey Weinstein story. Maybe they did, they decide.
What we recall as children is a version of what’s happening around us.
When you act, you’re always playing a version of yourself. You can’t bring more to the role than what you are.
When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of ‘War Of The Worlds,’ ‘Them,’ and ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers.’ Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.
I only write about stuff that sort of happens to me, and then I blow it up into a much funnier version.
My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Out is a little more fun because it lasts longer. It’s like an abbreviated version of the Warped tour because you get to play with the same people every day, which is really fun.
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, ‘utilitarian.’ I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.
I’m used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don’t have much time to get to know me.
I like the original Metallica version they did on ‘Garage Days’ – ‘Last Caress’ and ‘Green Hell.’
I would like to say this for the record: that I am not trying to lose weight or gain weight. I am just trying to be the best version of myself, and that’s really important.
Nature’s patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It’s nature’s version of nature versus nurture.
The short version is I’m just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade.
My first restoration was on ‘Napoleon,’ trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
About a year after ‘Bosom Buddies,’ I was suddenly a regular on ‘Newhart,’ and I was there almost seven years. And then, somewhere in the mid-1990s, I ended up doing a TV series version of ‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.’
If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they’re going to say it sucks. I really hate that.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don’t even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
I conceived ‘All Is Song’ as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates’s life.
Dinner for me is usually some version of chicken or fish – I love salmon – with grilled vegetables and salad.
Good founders can give me a picture of the future that I can believe. And the second that I believe your version of the future, you have leverage.
I grew up in North Carolina, and they have a soft drink called Sun Drop. I love the diet version of it. It’s the greatest thing on the face of the earth. I always have it in my fridge – bus fridge and home fridge.
The team behind ‘The Lego Movie’ approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee ‘Everything is Awesome.’ They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
Especially, I don’t want to ever be compared to The Rock because I’d be the poor man’s version of The Rock. I’m just not him; it’s not who I am as a person or as a performer. The Rock’s very big and bold, and I’m not.
I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it’s all right. It’s OK to have that awkward phase.
When I was at Capitol – and this was not Capitol’s fault – I was aiming, you know. I would listen to country radio and go, ‘What version of me does radio want?’
There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I’ve always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.
In the past, once a movie musical was made, it was believed that you were left with that version, good or bad, for posterity.
My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don’t see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it’s really a different version of the song.
Film rights were in the offing for ‘The Onion Field,’ eventually made into a movie in 1979; ‘The New Centurions’ became a 1972 film starring George C. Scott, while ‘The Blue Knight’ starred William Holden in a 1973 mini-series version.
In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama’s 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.
To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I’ve been living my own version of success since the early ’90s when I first got signed. I haven’t had a job since then.
In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.
When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is you’re given.
