Long Quotes
On patience, process and playing the long game.
Several quotes here describe how long real work actually takes: commissioning a television show, learning from mistakes only years later, or thinking generationally about where humanity stands. For a related theme, see our Long Time quotes.
I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.
It's very easy to divide a long shoot day into 15 or 20 rounds of 'What do I eat next?'
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No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.
Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.
As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc.
I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.
To outsource your memory to machines - which is what many of us do with regard to our use of search engines - seems to me to be fairly antithetical to the basic qualities of Jewish life that have kept...
My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.
The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you...
And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.
I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.
The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.
I've been a fan of Showtime for a long, long time, and I've been a fan of the shows that it's had on.
When you work with people for a long time, you start to sense what they are thinking without having to communicate explicitly.
The history of horror movies goes back a long way... of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it.
The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
I truly felt like I was a Division I quarterback, and I'd felt that way for a long time. I just wanted other people to see it.
I'm just trying to be the best quarterback possible. So as long as I'm playing well and improving every day, I will just continue this.
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a...
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
