I am not a trained actor. My real learning began on the sets.
It’s not something someone sets out to do – I never really set out to make movies about strong fighting women, but it just seems to happen that way. I’ve certainly known some, and I think my sister was probably a big influence.
Scale is very easy actually. Put a camera on a jib or a drone and get bloody big shots on big sets, it’s very easy. But then you’re distracted. If you’re looking at the shot, you aren’t following the story any more.
There are days when I don’t count sets at all, but then there are some days when I have to realize that I don’t want to overwork because I still have an hour of cardio ahead of me or another training session later that day.
I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they’ve been there, they know what they’re doing, they’ve seen it done right, they’ve seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There’s not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.
Interest in a sport peaks during its championship season. That’s when even casual observers turn on their television sets, and lifelong fans are born.
Boxing is not like any other sport, you have to weigh up the risk and reward. Things like playing football, tennis, you might be three sets to love down, but boxing you’re going to the hospital on a stretcher and you know potentially you are going to get an injury you can’t walk away from.
My work is my hobby and if I am not on the sets, I am at home with a bunch of very close friends.
I was turning up at sets where inexperienced people were making these badly written films – but they were doing it; that was the point. They were getting their films out there. And they were paying me, so they obviously had access to money. I just thought, ‘I can make something better than this.’
If you are very nervous, it is going to affect you and you start feeling tired or anxiety sets in.
I just think that the Victoria’s Secret girl values herself by the way she looks. And that might be linked with being healthy, but that’s all it is, and it sets a negative example to other people.
Spencer is quite romantic every day – he’s very affectionate. He sets his alarm early so that we can have snuggles before he gets out of bed – I know that sounds so cringey but we do actually do that.
The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.
The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don’t have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
Usually I’m frustrated when I look at my films and I don’t believe that I’ve made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it’s me, that I didn’t create a unique character.
I think the best match I played was against Roger Federer in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 2011, especially because I won this match after being two sets down.
Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don’t give ’em a green card.
Most big popcorn movies are ‘bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.’ And ‘Ender’s Game’ is just not that simple, so it’s an exciting challenge. It’s a little terrifying, and let’s see how audiences respond.
Right now, I think robots are where it’s at. And yes, I’m biased. Robots and space, because with home rocket kits and Lego Mindstorm sets, people can get involved. I was raised on Transformers and GoBots, so I can’t imagine what kids who are building real robots are dreaming about.
That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.
I write all my scripts with Salman in mind. He understands me perfectly on the sets.
It’s worth knowing that there’s very different sets of regulation for the print press and for broadcast media. They’re different things, particularly during campaign periods.
I’m always amazed at the way some actors’ behaviour is truly disgusting. That’s one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.
Whenever one sees a director at work, anyone would hesitate to disturb him or her on the sets.
We used to play a lot of Fela Kuti in the early days of hip-hop. In my DJ sets I’ll jump off into rock, salsa, African. I like to play some crazy stuff and see the vibrations of the people.
In Greek myth, a chimera is a creepy combination of lion, goat, dragon – in humans, chimeras are one person who contains two sets of DNA. That’s right. One person comes up in tests as two different people.
You know how on movie sets there are specific chairs for each person? I hate that. We don’t have names on our chairs. We have five chairs. Anyone can sit on them. I think the idea of names on chairs on a set is terrible. It’s so dumb. So we got rid of that.
Hate controls everything it touches, but love sets everything it touches free.
I think it’s good that we’re talking about it, but I think there’s still a gendered nature to the way that people see female directors’ skill sets. And I think we need to keep examining that. I don’t know if people know how complicated the issue really is.
If people are going to spend a night out at the theatre, they don’t just want ‘good’ – we can watch box sets for that – they want it to be totally remarkable.
Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn’t work.
When you’re building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can’t have two sets of information for two sets of people.
The words that I’m most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that’s the same with music, really. If you’re doing an album, there’s ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times – it’s difficult.
No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.
So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles.
Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
Every director, actor, and even producer gets angry on the sets. Why am I the only one being singled out for losing my cool or being talked about vis-a-vis my anger?
I grew up on sets so I’ve always felt like that I wanted to be a part of the acting world.
Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.
I’ve always wanted to be a DJ so I could play the music I love for other people. That feeling hasn’t changed, but my sets are always evolving. In terms of tailoring to a specific crowd, certainly I do play differently depending on the situation. It’s a different feel, for example, in a small club versus a festival.
We’re in the age of the series, trilogy, boxed sets.
The Constitution sets out no standards for granting pardons. They require no consent from Congress, and courts can’t second-guess them.
I wrote a play that I directed and I was in, and I paid for the sets and the costumes and to put it up in a theater all through modeling. It really afforded me a lot of creative control in my life.
Towards the end of ‘Dark Shadows,’ the sets are cracking and bleeding, but so is Angelique. The fact that she breaks apart physically as well as mentally lends an added dimension, and I just loved playing that.
When you talk about running big venues, obviously the WWE has sold out arenas all over the world throughout the years and it seems like every WrestleMania sets a new record. But, I believe l and I’m not mistaken that the first guy to run a dome was Bill Watts when he ran The Superdome.
A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave – as he thinks at that moment – a trace on the earth.
It’s no disgrace to play against the world’s champions and lose by one service break in the last two sets.
I can still remember them wheeling the black and white TV sets into our classroom at school so we could watch the men landing on the Moon, and that obviously had a huge impact. I later found out those people flying Apollo were ex-military test pilots, so I decided to join the Air Force and become a test pilot.
Naga Shaurya is a silent person and doesn’t talk to anyone on the sets. But when he faces the camera, he is a different person altogether. As an actor, he is very mature.
For an American, as mad you may be about whatever the EPA or the IRS does, just imagine if you only had a one twenty-eighth vote over what it does. You were in this place with this big bureaucracy that sets rules, and you only have a small vote. You’d feel like you’ve given up your sovereignty, wouldn’t you?
