Joe Hahn quotes

“With directing, you have to know what you're doing, but you have to actually be able to control what's going on.”
-- Joe Hahn

Source : "Director Joe Hahn Talks MALL, Why He Chose This Material as His First Feature, the Casting Process, His Music Video Background, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2014.

#Able Quotes

“I think most people don't exactly know what they're doing, 100%, but they portray themselves as if they do.”
-- Joe Hahn

Source : "Director Joe Hahn Talks MALL, Why He Chose This Material as His First Feature, the Casting Process, His Music Video Background, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2014.

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“The best thing that I can offer to people is just to be honest, and that's a rare quality. In doing so, I think there's always a top down feeling that permeates a working environment. If the boss is cool and he's a certain way that's not bullshitting, then everyone around is going to feel that comfort and try to be that way, as well. That's just who I strive to be, as a person.”
-- Joe Hahn

Source : "Director Joe Hahn Talks MALL, Why He Chose This Material as His First Feature, the Casting Process, His Music Video Background, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2014.

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Boss Quotes

“Making movies is like a circus. You get together for a finite amount of time and you build the most extravagant thing you can, which requires teamwork. Most people don't know, but when you see something on screen, it looks perfect. If you go behind the scenes, things are very archaic. You only see the front of the building, not the back.”
-- Joe Hahn

Source : "Director Joe Hahn Talks MALL, Why He Chose This Material as His First Feature, the Casting Process, His Music Video Background, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2014.

#Teamwork Quotes #People Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“I love collaboration. I love working with people to come up with something better than what I initially thought. With directing, you have to be controlling in a lot of ways, but I find myself trying to battle against that, to not be controlling, because that's when great things can come about, beyond how great you think you can be.”
-- Joe Hahn

Source : "Octavia Spencer Talks RED BAND SOCIETY, Her Character’s Journey in Season 1, Favorite Scenes, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2014.

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Battle Quotes

“Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.”

“If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.”

“I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.”

Source : "Abbas Kiarostami's best shot". Interview with Abbas Kiarostami, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2009.

“I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.”

“You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.”

“The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.”

“I want certain things out of life. I want my grand kids, my kids' kids, being able to inherit what I've worked so hard to build.”

Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com

“I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

“The only people I have been able to use are those who fought”

“In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.”