Turteltaub Quotes

#1. You'll never meet a nicer person, let alone a nicer actress, than Mary Steenburgen.

Jon Turteltaub

#2. What's great is when you're shooting at the same hotel you're living in, you finish shooting, put your stuff down, take an elevator and go to bed.

Jon Turteltaub

#3. What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.

Jon Turteltaub

#4. Most of the guys like sticking to the script and doing just what's written. If they're exploring, they're exploring ways of doing the script.

Jon Turteltaub

#5. You're often trying to fix a script by shooting it.

Jon Turteltaub

#6. It's an ongoing process, in the script, on the set and in the editing room, to make sure you are being true to the emotion of the film without turning it into a melodrama, and making sure you're getting all the laughs you can without it turning into just some stupid comedy.

Jon Turteltaub

#7. Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.

Jon Turteltaub

#8. If low-temperature fusion does exist and can be perfected, power generation could be decentralized. Each home could heat itself and produce its own electricity, probably using a form of water as fuel. Even automobiles might be cold-fusion powered.

Charles Platt

#9. We love the quality in a person, who can see themselves clearly and isn't ashamed of who they are.

Jon Turteltaub

#10. You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.

Jon Turteltaub

#11. Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

Lauren DeStefano

#12. The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

William Falconer

#13. I never take photographs myself. I don't feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

Christian Boltanski

#14. It's so much harder to recreate something than it is to shoot at the actual place. It's not without its problems. You've got a lot of bystanders and security issues, but it's always a lot easier and a lot more fun to shoot at the actual location.

Jon Turteltaub

#15. It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.

Jon Turteltaub

#16. Every time you run
you create the quality of your own experience

Fred Rohe

#17. We always feel safest, I think, around the most dangerous person who's on your side, more than the nice good person who's on your side.

Jon Turteltaub

#18. We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

J.I. Packer