#tried

For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#cut #film #found #i #me

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#anyone #cost #efforts #hide #i

People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#among #better #better way #choose #comfortable

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#abuse #actually #better #extreme #face

They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children. ↗

— Norma McCorvey

#discredit #i #many #me #out

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#bad #been #brando #even #good

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese. ↗

— John McGahern

#anything #being #chinese #else #i

Tom and I didn't have a problem with the height differential but Paramount did, so we tried to hide it. ↗

— Kelly McGillis

#differential #height #hide #i #paramount

I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#cowboy #cowboy hat #fell #get #hard

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. ↗

— Herman Melville

#choose #enduring #ever #flea #great