Use what you've got. What you need is usually there if you can see it and if you have the courage to use it.
Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say performances are usually made in the editing room because what you film is the raw material. I think just going through the process of saying, "Which take do we use? Why is that the take we want? I want that take can you edit again, I'm not sure that's the one, I think it's this one. " And just because you go through that process, I think somehow it's made me sort of more open about the [actor's] possibilities.
The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.
Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.
If I get invited somewhere I can never usually say no. And then I don't leave until I'm asked to.
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.
I am a morning person and start work, whether composing, rehearsing, preparing syllabitests, or proofing an article or manuscript, early in the morning before the flood of e-mails, phone calls and disturbances, usually by my four cats! I like to do projects that I can become passionate about - women in the arts and mentoring students. Like all of us, if we enjoy what we are doing, it's not work, and we might even get paid for it!
I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.
I feel like the last tattoo you got is usually your favorite.
Catherine! Get out of my way. I need to have a word with that thing. " Since she usually called Bones "filthy animal", I assumed "thing" meant Ian.
I like hanging around people who knit. They are usually in a good mood. People who are staring into their iPhones *and* demanding your attention at the same time are not as much fun to be around.
Even bad decisions usually result in good lessons learned.
Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement.
It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.
Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.
Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of the leader is to conceal artificiality. If you believe a leader is at all necessary then you must admit that the longer the leader the better chances you have for success
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin.