I'm a great believer in relativity when making movies. Relativity, in my mind, meaning "Light to dark, big to small, good to bad. " You visually embrace these things to enhance transitions and instantly paint environments and moods.
The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.
I have moved around a lot, and I've lived in all of these different environments - that has affected the kinds of music and the range of music and influences I've had in my life. All of those influences - more subconsciously - play into the music I make.
The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don't want people to start amping up expectations for an early version of your product. The best entrepreneurship happens in low-stakes environments where no one is paying attention, like Mark Zuckerberg's dorm room at Harvard.
Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work.
I became a writer in spite of my environments.
Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.
While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.
The thing I like about the sci-fi genre is that you get to examine universal themes and polarizing moral choices. The characters have a lot on their shoulders and are often trying to survive in some very difficult and hostile environments.
In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments.
We become different people and we adapt to our environments, but that doesn't have anything to do with being creative.
Trust is kind of this economic lubricant. When trust is high, morale is high. . . . Higher trust environments produce individuals who are happier.
All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
People are much more important than superficial environments.
I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.
There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless of specific duties, however, the stage manager is the individual who accepts responsibility for the smooth running of rehearsals and performances, on stage and backstage.
Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.
We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.
I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.
I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.
