Orci Quotes

#1. You're never done. You're not done until it's projecting in the theater.

Roberto Orci

#2. If something is wrong, it'll prove to be wrong in the wash, and if it's right, you don't want to not expose yourself to it - so I read everything, no matter how horrible it gets. You listen and take it in and if it doesn't sway you, you'll know you considered it.

Roberto Orci

#3. A lot of people we tell the story to assume that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were actually part of the original Washington Irving story, which only happens to be 17 pages. It's a great starting point, and then we built on it, very much in a logical progression.

Roberto Orci

#4. We wanted to present the Headless Horseman in a new light. That's where the fun comes in, of just diving in.

Roberto Orci

#5. Treat the large as the small and the few as the many.

Laozi

#6. You want to come up with your own points of view first and then test them against what you see.

Roberto Orci

#7. The point is just to create a discipline for making sure that you're creating material.

Roberto Orci

#8. You can't force an audience to see something they don't want to see, no matter what it is.

Roberto Orci

#9. In school, you learn that there are only seven kinds of stories. There's man versus nature, man versus man, man versus himself, blah blah blah. So it doesn't matter what they're called. It's this: do you have a new story that fits into one of those things.

Roberto Orci

#10. The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.

Olaf Stapledon

#11. Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

Zoe Kazan

#12. Tod's pale brows arched halfway up his forehead, and he looked suddenly, achingly wistful. "She knows not what she says ... "
Maybe not. But I was starting to get a pretty good idea ...

Rachel Vincent

#13. Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.

Roberto Orci

#14. Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original story.

Roberto Orci

#15. When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.

Nelson Mandela

#16. The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.

Roberto Orci

#17. Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

Henny Youngman

#18. When you change showrunners, it's like getting divorced and getting remarried.

Bear McCreary

#19. No one ever seems to question why the burden is all on the teacher to do the engaging, when we ask so little of the students, or for that matter, their parents." Her vehemence startled me. "I never thought of it that way," I told her. "No," she said, not unkindly. "But I promise, you will.

Tony Danza

#20. I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

Alistair Cooke

#21. I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.

Violet Trefusis

#22. Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

Johnny Carson

#23. I was really fascinated by the idea of how cunning and calculating Headless Horseman would be, and how much personality you can actually get from somebody when they're not expressing. They can do a lot of attitude, just within their body movements.

Roberto Orci

#24. 'Star Trek Into Darkness' isn't that 'Star Trek' is going to be no fun, and dark. It's that the fun's going to be challenged by some serious issues.

Roberto Orci

#25. Oh, smell the people! yelled Dean with his face out the window, sniffing. Ah, God! Life!

Jack Kerouac

#26. When you are playing a detective, particularly as a woman, you either are going to embrace the fact that it's a man's world you are jumping into, or you're going to ignore it.

Roberto Orci