Top 31 Heslov Quotes
#1. TALENT PROVIDES HOPE FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT, BUT PERSEVERANCE GUARANTEES IT.
John C. Maxwell
#2. Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.
Grant Heslov
#3. There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.
Grant Heslov
#4. You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.
Grant Heslov
#5. There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.
Grant Heslov
#6. I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.
Grant Heslov
#7. You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.
Grant Heslov
#8. 'Monuments Men' is a movie ... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed.
Grant Heslov
#10. I couldn't comprehend why she still hadn't stopped him because it's clearly every mother's responsibility to protect her children. After all, that's the trust that bonds a mother and her child together, forever
Veronika Gasparyan
#11. You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where ... " .
Grant Heslov
#12. A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.
Grant Heslov
#13. There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.
Mark Knopfler
#14. I think it's more interesting to throw people into a story and let them catch up instead of explaining and feeling like you have to slow down for them. I think audiences, for the most part, they don't want to be ahead of you.
Grant Heslov
#16. I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as a director.
Grant Heslov
#17. 'The Ides of March' was a fairly cynical film.
Grant Heslov
#19. I'm going to f
ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f
ing kill Google.
Steve Ballmer
#20. I didn't want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.
Grant Heslov
#21. When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.
Grant Heslov
#22. Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
Bruce Sterling
#23. Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful thing for a director to have experienced that. It helps you know how to talk to actors and how to get what you need from them.
Grant Heslov
#24. I find writing really difficult - definitely the most difficult of all the things I do.
Grant Heslov
#25. I remember when I was 26. My father died when I was young and my mother didn't have a lot of money, so I thought, 'I want to own a flat by the time I'm 26.' So I worked towards that, literally trying to scrimp and save. But sometimes those plans don't go as you expect.
Cate Blanchett
#26. Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.
Grant Heslov
#27. Ninety percent of health care is spent on chronic illnesses, and eighty percent of those are preventable, said Morgan Kendrick, president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia.
Anonymous
#28. A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.
Grant Heslov
#29. What you learn when you direct a film, even more so than as a producer, it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet.
Grant Heslov
#30. Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
Grant Heslov
#31. When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures.
Grant Heslov
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