David R. Ellis quote: "They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of...
DAVID R. ELLIS

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.
DAVID R. ELLIS

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approach...
DAVID R. ELLIS

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.
DAVID R. ELLIS

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second ...
DAVID R. ELLIS

You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moment...
DAVID R. ELLIS

Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was a...
DAVID R. ELLIS

We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing ...
DAVID R. ELLIS

They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the ...
DAVID R. ELLIS

I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if ...
DAVID R. ELLIS

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near ...
DAVID R. ELLIS

Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.
DAVID R. ELLIS

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be fu...
DAVID R. ELLIS

Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't...
DAVID R. ELLIS

Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you...
DAVID R. ELLIS

It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execut...
DAVID R. ELLIS

I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest s...
DAVID R. ELLIS

I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're goi...
DAVID R. ELLIS

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.
DAVID R. ELLIS

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.
DAVID R. ELLIS

So there was always a stunt coordinator on those films that was from Stunts Unlimited and I was just...
DAVID R. ELLIS

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.
DAVID R. ELLIS

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near ...
DAVID ELLIS

It's great down here, coming to work and hanging out with your friends and talking about video games...
DAVID ELLIS

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.
DAVID R. BROWER

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the P...
DAVID R. BROWER

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on...
DAVID R. BROWER

We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
DAVID R. BROWER

Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the ...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

With spiritual work, the terms 'is' or 'are' become progressively replaced by the term 'seems to', w...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

Every thought, action, decision or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, interbalancing, ever...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
DAVID R. HAWKINS

You need to be right, you need to make money, you need to be successful. It's the neediness that's t...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all.
DAVID R. HAWKINS

All judgment reveals itself to be self-judgment in the end, and when this is understood a larger com...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

It is only the minority of people who seek self-improvement or personal growth. This is because what...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you're fri...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on th...
DAVID R. GERGEN

Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything n...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassiona...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

The readiness to initiate the journey cannot be forced nor can people be faulted if it has not occur...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

The downside of spiritual education is the buildup of the vanity of 'I know' and the devaluation of ...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.
DAVID R. BROWER

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chem...
DAVID R. BROWER

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the...
DAVID R. BROWER

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You...
DAVID R. BROWER

I just realized that I don't have to have an opinion about everything--what a relief!
DAVID R. HAWKINS

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited ...
DAVID R. BROWER

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consum...
DAVID R. BROWER

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the ed...
DAVID R. BROWER

Success isn't something you have to get, its just the automatic consequence of integrity. If you're ...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.
DAVID R. GERGEN

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical e...
DAVID R. BROWER

It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scie...
DAVID R. BROWER

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware,...
DAVID R. BROWER

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out e...
DAVID R. BROWER

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I t...
DAVID R. BROWER

The relation to the other is not epistemological, but ethical, and the whole attempt to accomodate o...
DAVID R. CERBONE

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and ...
DAVID R. BROWER

This is a reality check for people thinking of having obesity surgery. Patients really need to go in...
DAVID R. FLUM

What you're seeing in the East Wing is normal turnover, and what you're seeing in the West Wing is a...
DAVID R. GERGEN

The main satisfaction we're getting is the intellectual excitement. For me, that's plenty. Isn't tha...
DAVID R. NELSON

Win or lose, he realized that it was going to be very difficult to govern and that the better part o...
DAVID R. GERGEN

There's an old saying that you can't open a new circus until the old circus leaves town. It was just...
DAVID R. GERGEN

How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so...
DAVID R. GERGEN

We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.
DAVID R. GERGEN

We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.
DAVID R. GERGEN

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
DAVID R. GERGEN

Not at all tricky. We do this sort of stuff every day before breakfast. Then I fly to work on my...
DAVID R. CHASE

Uncomfortable with our sense-of-lack today, we look forward to that day in the future when we will f...
DAVID R. LOY

Why is true success so relatively effortless? It might be likened to the magnetic field created by a...
DAVID R. HAWKINS

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energ...
DAVID R. GERGEN

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifyi...
DAVID R. BROWER

Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all.
DAVID R. HAWKINS

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, th...
DAVID R. BROWER

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank ...
DAVID R. BROWER

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!
DAVID R. BROWER

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for ...
DAVID R. BROWER

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finall...
DAVID R. BROWER

He had not been able to see it in himself, but looking at Hungerford, he was able at least to specul...
DAVID R. SLAVITT

If we're going to do this operation at all in patients 65 and older, it should really be done in pla...
DAVID R. FLUM

That is significantly higher than most people expect when they think of obesity surgery. Patients ar...
DAVID R. FLUM

This is not a vanity operation, it's a high-risk operation. This at least allows people who are cons...
DAVID R. FLUM

If Progressive Nursing is a nurse-staffing service, she might be able to do this. If it is a bona fi...
DAVID R. BERGMANN

Believe it or not, failure to include W-2s is another big one.
DAVID R. BERGMANN

With a twenty-year horizon until retirement, she could invest in a rental property with a 15-year mo...
DAVID R. BERGMANN

She should make the highest allowable contribution. This year, the federal limit is $11,000, and it ...
DAVID R. BERGMANN

If you got a fat severance check at the end of the year, take a look and make sure you are in the sa...
DAVID R. BERGMANN

Failure to sign the return is a big one.
DAVID R. BERGMANN

Every day, librarians enforce copyright policies that we may disagree with and that, in some ways, r...
R. DAVID LANKES

Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.
DAVID R. BROWER

What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public....
DAVID R. BROWER

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That'...
DAVID R. BROWER

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
DAVID R. BROWER

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoug...
DAVID R. BROWER

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth org...
DAVID R. BROWER

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad...
DAVID R. BROWER

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man ...
DAVID R. BROWER

To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical...
R. DAVID LANKES

'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

The Lord, over the years, grew a seed in my heart to make faith-based films.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

We have a lot of relationships to the gatekeepers who can rally their people to go to the movie thea...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

You have a wide array of people that are watching something, and you cannot please everyone at the s...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

The majority of the time, we try to hire the best people that we can get just to make the best films...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

We have anticipated releasing the trailer for 'Do You Believe?' to audiences, as so many hav...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

I don't think it's any mystery that any Christians can be some of the most judgmental people...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

As an actor, you've worked very hard, and you've been doing this for 20-some years, and Will...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

The nice thing about building up your own studio is if Hollywood decides to hate faith-based films, ...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

When you buy a ticket, you're basically voting for whatever you see.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a v...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

I wear this label of a Christian filmmaker proudly.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

I saw one movie in theatres in the first 18 years of my life.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

We created Pure Flix to make uplifting and inspiring content on a consistent, ongoing basis, so audi...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

'Old Fashioned' can expect strong interest because it taps into a universal human longing.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be invol...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

Pure Flix makes evangelistic films, but we also make family films. I think the viewer wants to see q...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

It's important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after hig...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

I want to live my life the way Jesus does - I want to love people.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a ...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

If you can make a living doing what you love, that is a blessing.
DAVID A. R. WHITE

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not ...
ALBERT ELLIS

When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the i...
WARREN ELLIS

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work befor...
WARREN ELLIS

I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.
WARREN ELLIS

I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
WARREN ELLIS

In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.
WARREN ELLIS

For me, the Internet's like music. I don't like working without it. I will tune it out for h...
WARREN ELLIS

Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as...
WARREN ELLIS

I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on...
WARREN ELLIS

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
WARREN ELLIS

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
WARREN ELLIS

Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
WARREN ELLIS

It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who ha...
WARREN ELLIS

The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up a...
WARREN ELLIS

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousan...
WARREN ELLIS

On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't ki...
WARREN ELLIS

I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had w...
WARREN ELLIS

I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
WARREN ELLIS

If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research ab...
WARREN ELLIS

I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
WARREN ELLIS

The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt tho...
WARREN ELLIS

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television s...
WARREN ELLIS

It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
WARREN ELLIS

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
WARREN ELLIS

I think one of the bigger lessons the Internet has taught us is that 'niche' or 'subcult...
WARREN ELLIS

You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
WARREN ELLIS

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to kn...
ALBERT ELLIS

I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.
NELSAN ELLIS

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
ALBERT ELLIS

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more dire...
ALBERT ELLIS

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equa...
ALBERT ELLIS

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about...
ALBERT ELLIS

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that&#...
ALBERT ELLIS

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone lo...
ALBERT ELLIS

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with who...
ALBERT ELLIS

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
ALBERT ELLIS

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and tha...
ALBERT ELLIS

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
ALBERT ELLIS

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
ALBERT ELLIS

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
ALBERT ELLIS

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every c...
ALBERT ELLIS

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
ALBERT ELLIS

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
ALBERT ELLIS

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must ...
ALBERT ELLIS

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas...
ALBERT ELLIS

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct ...
ALBERT ELLIS

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
ALBERT ELLIS

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensa...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the l...
ELLIS PETERS

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas whi...
ALBERT ELLIS

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock ...
ALBERT ELLIS

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept every...
ALBERT ELLIS

He would have been a security problem for any jail he would have been at. The judge was cognizant of...
ALBERT ELLIS

He appeared to me the bravest man it fell to my unhappy lot to execute.
ALBERT ELLIS

I just got fed up. I was ready to blow up. This country is about enforcing our laws and if we don't,...
ALBERT ELLIS

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the...
ALBERT ELLIS

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency
ALBERT ELLIS

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.
ALBERT ELLIS

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happe...
NELSAN ELLIS

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the nee...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understa...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable ex...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of vie...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

I'm not a blokey bloke. I don't take myself too seriously. But that doesn't stop me bein...
TOM ELLIS

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as h...
ELLIS PETERS

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the dark...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
HAVELOCK ELLIS

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspect...
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
HAVELOCK ELLIS

They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up.

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They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up.

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