Spiller Quotes

#1. When something unfortunate happens, they tend to respond with: "To me? It's happening to me?" They don't believe they are deserving of bad luck. One of the lessons they're learning is that "life" happens to everyone.

Jan Spiller

#2. Eight: the age of exploration, of ghosts and secret forays; the age at which a mystery lurks behind every curtain and every armoire opens into a magical world, which you may enter at any time, but who knows when you will return.

Carmen Posadas

#3. In business
every business
the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.

Donald Trump

#4. The pilot is a sales tool; it introduces you to the characters and might set the template for what the show is meant to be, but there's so many boxes you have to check off on a pilot that it can sort of hurt the storytelling in a way.

Michael Spiller

#5. I think your average fan probably just assumes that the same person directs every episode of their favorite series, week in and week out.

Michael Spiller

#6. But I was afraid. Maybe he would believe me, take my word that the guards had let me go. That Badriya had said it was all right. That I did nothing inappropriate or shameful at the resource center. Impossible. We

Nadia Hashimi

#7. Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting.

Michael Spiller

#8. Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

Charles Dickens

#9. I want a trouble-maker for a lover, blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, who burns like fire on the rushing sea.

Rumi

#10. Don't despite the tiny opportunities that come your way because they always the starting point of great adventures.

Euginia Herlihy

#11. If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a single scene and have it take five hours is very good for comedy.

Michael Spiller

#12. I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.

Michael Spiller

#13. Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

John Hume

#14. Some time ago," he said, "
how long it seems!
I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.

P.G. Wodehouse

#15. For me, I believe comedy's about taking risks, taking chances, working in a safe environment where you're comfortable making a fool of yourself. It's so critical, especially in comedy, to just have all those right pieces in place.

Michael Spiller

#16. She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.

Khaled Hosseini

#17. I think it's not uncommon for new television shows to spend certainly the first year, but without a doubt, like, the first eight or ten episodes, kind of figuring out what the show is.

Michael Spiller

#18. Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a birthday party.

Cassandra Clare