#adapting

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#actor #adapting #away #being #cinema

In fantasy the world is always adapting to you, in reality you are always adapting to the world. That is the only difference. ↗

— girl

#change #fantasy #reality #the-world #change

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#alive #cell #continually #identity #impossibilities

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#after #always #answer #been #clock

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#any #capacity #change #environment #learning

Adapt to your surrounding but remain flexible for growing. ↗

— Ashley Porter

#change #growth #change

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again! ↗

— Ben Elton

#advice #again #anyone #away #learnt

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#adapting #alone #banks #bone #book

Planning is helpful. If you don’t know what you want, you’ll seldom get it. But, no matter how well you plan, you will fare better if you expect the unexpected. The unexpected, by nature, comes unseen, unthought, unenvisioned. All you can do is plan to go unplanned, prepare to be unprepared, make going with the flow part of your agenda, for the most successful among us envision, plan, and prepare, but cast all aside as needed, while those who are unable to go with the flow often suffer, if they survive. ↗

— David W. Jones

#flexibility #flow #going-with-the-flow #nature

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#blood #book #desperate #even #feel