I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.
When our assists lead to baskets, that’s us playing our best, and we begin knocking down shots.
I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally.
I have to keep calm and work on my shots in practice.
I always start my day with a red-eye misto – two shots, extra hot, extra foam – from Starbucks.
Now, I’m not afraid. Or getting myself down about missing shots or missing an assignment late. The game goes on. You’ve got another chance. That’s definitely a mental thing.
I love insults, devastating takedowns, things that could be described by Twitter hacks as ‘shots fired,’ and funny ad hominem attacks.
It’s very difficult to consistently hit good iron shots if you get off to a bad start. That’s why I’m always paying attention to my setup and takeaway.
I’m a big fan of being able to hold those long shots and use space. I don’t know, I think everything’s so quick cut these days, as if films are too afraid that the audience is going to get bored instead of relaxing and trusting their work.
Over 55% of all shots using animals in ‘The Hobbit’ are in fact computer generated; this includes horses, ponies, rabbits, hedgehogs, birds, deer, elk, mice, wild boars and wolves.
Weird stuff, for me, is not that weird. I guess if it were other people, they’d think it was weird. I eat nutritional yeast. And sometimes I take clay shots to help pull toxins out of my body. I eat weird L.A. food, so I guess that’s probably weird in other people’s eyes.
People talk about Kobe’s 81-point game, the second-highest scoring game in NBA history. I saw the game. I don’t care if it was 79, 81 – I just remember the game. I remember the moves. I remember the shots. I remember the beauty of it. The numbers? What he shot from the field? I don’t care.
The scoops and laps are something I’ve always had. The timing of the shots is the important part. You can’t use it when it’s reckless, you’ve to use it at the right time. Using the crease is something I’ve consciously worked on.
I had a couple of different workouts I’d do. One routine was 250 shots. I’d try to get a friend rebound for me. I’d count them.
Obviously, you look at a situation and you say, ‘What do I need to do to fit in?’ I looked at the Clippers and said, ‘I really need to work on my dunk shots.’
Most of my shots are threes and long 2-point jumpers.
I make shots, and that’s what I am.
Usually in a Smosh sketch, we get 60 shots, 12 hours to shoot – we’re just going ‘bam, bam, bam.’
The ‘Agent X’ set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
You don’t have to be a superhero and pull off shots you’ve never hit before. Your goal should be to put yourself in position to play as close to your regular game as possible. That’s what I did in the final round of the 2018 Open Championship at Carnoustie, when I was in the final pairing with Jordan Spieth.
My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, ‘90% of the job is casting,’ so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that’s really it.
Oh yeah – I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn’t seen that film, inevitably the camera would’ve ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.
People don’t drop me with shots on the temple.
I’m not afraid to take big shots. I’m not afraid to take any type of shots.
When I played Gollum in ‘Lord of the Rings,’ if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn’t captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.
Basketball players, the good ones, are no one-shot specialisls. This is a game which puts a premium on your ability to hit that hoop consistently, and to excel in it you’ve got to have a variety of shots.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
I’m not a guy that’s going to shoot 10 3s a game – I like to get to the basket. But some of those shots I do gotta take. Some of those shots I gotta let fly.
When I write a screenplay – and I think it’s one of the reasons why it was frustrating for me just to be a screenwriter – I’m not thinking of it in terms of words on a page; I’m thinking in terms of visual images – basically, a comic book. I’m thinking of it in a series of shots.
I’m very impressed by films like’ Whiplash’ or what Fincher does, where you get all these different… Where you get all this coverage that’s perfectly linked up. I actually find coverage very confusing. But I love sequencing shots because I know exactly where I am.
When I feel that confidence to do my best shots, I know I can be dangerous for all the guys.
I play a lot quicker, in quite an attacking style, play a few little crazy shots sometimes that other players wouldn’t take.
Exterior shots showing blue skies add a levity and brightness to each show.
If you have a game where you’re under pressure, obviously there are going to be a lot of shots on target, and you’re going to make saves, but you can’t say you played well in a game where you concede five goals. It’s ridiculous.
I’m a type of player that tries to do everything a lot to help our team. Setting screens to get guys open, trying to block shots.
I always talk about, like, with end-of-game situations, making and missing big shots, I know I can shoulder that. I can live with having the success of the playoffs and having a huge failure. I know I can deal with it.
Hitchcock loved long convoluted shots that contained a lot of tracking and camera moves.
My main goal is to help the team as much as possible anyway I can. If they need me to shoot the three, I’ll shoot the three. If they need me to run the floor and block shots, I’ll do that also.
I don’t understand why Brandon Flowers keeps taking shots at us. Maybe he feels threatened, but he seems to be doing just fine on his own. It’s pretty dumb. I mean, we’re from the same town, and we’ve never met him.
Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bit distant – that’s why, often in these glamour shots, the person is not looking at the audience, it’s why sunglasses are glamorous – but also not so far above us that we can’t identify with the person.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I loved watching AB de Villiers in the early days. I used to follow him closely. I copied him a lot, too. In the nets, I used to at least try some of the shots he played in the matches.
A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they’re a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that’s the way society has become, especially in pop culture.
As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don’t support you any more.
If you start throwing eight or nine shots, you’re going to get caught – bang – and the fight could be over.
I don’t take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.
I’m not out there to be blocking shots or fighting guys. I’m out there to produce offensively.
When you start hitting some shots, you build some confidence.
When you play guard, you’re not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you’re going to block shots.
Once I wrote ‘Atmosphere,’ I thought, ‘This is my story; it’s me and my life and what I’ve gone through to get to where I am.’ I’m not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable – one more thing that people can fire shots at.
You have games when you miss shots and when you make shots. But knowing you’re here for a reason and you’re an NBA basketballer helps.
On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.
Obviously people have guarded me a lot different because of me being able to make shots.
But I always had the ability to say no. That’s how I called my own shots.
I basically try to visualize the team doing good things on the court the night before the game. I get shots up. There’s not actually a pregame ritual that I do. I’m still trying to figure that out. I say a prayer. I go out with confidence.
For me I think the pressure Chael Sonnen brings is hard to match with his offense, takedowns, ground and pound, hand in the face and dropping elbows and shots. It kind of wears down a fighter.
