New York is where you go to catch a big fish.
The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.
Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!
Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?
I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.
The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)
The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.
I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.
In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L. A. , we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.
A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.
My big fish must be somewhere.
Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)
I've always written towards movies that take place across two worlds. Most of the movies that I've worked on take place in two worlds, or sometimes three worlds, where you have a normal world and a fantasy world that mix and overlap. I never shy away from the series stuff in the real world. Big Fish is about mortality.
To me nature is. . . spiders and bugs, and big fish eating little fish, and plants eating plans, and animals eating. . . It's like an enormous restaurant, that's the way I see it.
They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.
The best advice I ever got was from Lee Iacocca. . . . It was get into a business where you can be a big fish, not the little fish. Get into a business where you can be a change agent, where you can make a difference.
You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.
But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.
Big Fish was the first movie that we worked on together, and I had already written it. We had another director, but that director didn't do it. So, it was just a Hail Mary to Tim, and Tim said that he wanted to do it and I was like, "That's fantastic!" But, there wasn't a lot of collaboration because he knew what he wanted to do and just did it. There were very minor changes for Big Fish.
