You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
There was a time when doing "Zoolander 2" that I was literally flying between the "Zoolander" shoot and "The Leftovers" in Texas and at that point, I was getting comedy whiplash. It was a relief, though, to get to Rome and be like, "Oh my God, I get to laugh on set. "
Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.
I was nicknamed 'Skeeter' in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.
Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed.
See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god. . . I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works.
I don't mind flying. I always pass out before the plane leaves the ground.
My own sense and taste in 3D films has been I don't really like it when it feels like it's a gimmick and it's coming at me, it's flying at me.
It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium
Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.
I love the whole futuristic landscape of dark, rainy neon, the mix of Eastern and Western cultures and the beautiful shots of the flying cars.
Some find it in their lovers eyes, who can deny the joy it brings. When you've found that special thing, you're flying without wings.
Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.
If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.
It almost made me long for the flying pig. --Percy
Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull. . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else, Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.