Leitch Quotes

#1. As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance.

David Leitch

#2. I walk the three blocks to the school slowly, like if I'm not careful of every step, every tiny movement, I will lose my grip on gravity and go flying up into the stratosphere.

Brenna Yovanoff

#3. Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

David Leitch

#4. She thought of all the things she'd forgotten to be scared of.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#5. Inspiration is nice, but not until we take action do we move into transformation.

Mary Morrissey

#6. People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling.

David Leitch

#7. Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

Rosa Parks

#8. Every song deserves lyrics. Deserves a story to tell.

Courtney C. Stevens

#9. Four years of sitting in your room reading, and now you're out here with the common folk," I say. "What did inspire you to suddenly make the trip?"

"I would have come sooner," she says, brushing her hair out of her face. "You just never invited me.

Will Leitch

#10. I waved back and went in, and began to sort my way through ancient building plans that had been rolled up so long that straightening them out was like six bouts with an octopus.

Dick Francis

#11. The avowed goal of most college students today is preprofessional training or professional credentialing, even if they have no idea what their profession is likely to be.

Thomas Leitch

#12. There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.

David Leitch

#13. Be part of the answer, not part of the mess.

Patricia Leitch

#14. Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film.

David Leitch

#15. If you make someone suffer today, without any doubt, you will be punished by your conscience. Don't hurt anyone in anyway or form.

Debasish Mridha

#16. True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.

Will Leitch

#17. This is the very structure of sports journalism: deification and damnation, death and resurrection, failure and redemption. You succeed so you can falter so you can succeed again. We need a rise and a fall. We need hubris and retribution and recovery.

Will Leitch

#18. You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.

David Leitch

#19. The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing.

Will Leitch

#20. The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.

David Leitch

#21. I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works ... Character driven programming!

Tim DeKay

#22. You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.

Sam Altman

#23. While filming 'The Matrix,' we studied how a Chinese fight-choreography team trains actors before production starts so that they can participate in action sequences in a more dynamic way.

David Leitch

#24. Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

Diane Ackerman

#25. Philosophy, in its simplest form, is the exploration of the beauty and ugliness of life.

Debasish Mridha

#26. A story only wants to be told. Don't stand in its way.

Aleks Canard

#27. It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.

R.C. Sproul

#28. I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think.

Will Leitch