David Leitch Quotations

As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance.

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling.

Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film.

The way you present a stunt is tied in to the way you photograph it, so you're hanging out with the cinematographer.

There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.

You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.

While filming 'The Matrix,' we studied how a Chinese fight-choreography team trains actors before production starts so that they can participate in action sequences in a more dynamic way.

No one is getting paid and the actual program and the system is chaotic,

He understands that this is a different kind of process, and he's committed to working through it. That doesn't necessarily mean he enjoys every part of it, or that he is taking anything for granted.

He has the ability to bring other justices with him. He has the real potential to be a leader on the court, in the sense of building camaraderie and coalitions for various results.

Her job was to turn everything upside down to see what might fall out.

I think the president himself values diversity on the courts, ... It will be something that he'll consider. But I don't think it's more or less likely to be a factor because of poll ratings or anything else going on in the short-term news cycle.

will probably do everything possible to make the best long-term decision, rather than just pay attention to the vicissitudes of the moment. Thirty years from now, you might still have the (new) justice making decisions.

Being among those who carried him into the court for the last time was an indescribable honor.

There's no doubt it's a viable fuel for generation. But it's no better or worse than any other kind of gas, and there's a question mark over gas generally, while coal remains cheaper without a carbon tax.

No slowdown in the U.S. was visible in those figures. The sales growth rate in both volume and price exceeded my expectations.

You might think anybody who was preparing something to go to the president would already have taken care to see that it was perfect.

I'm sure many people around the state would share that extreme disappointment, ... but now we'll have to see who emerges. I'm not sure there is a clear front runner right now.

If you asked him who he'd like to be a model of, one of the judges he'd say would be Henry Friendly. John is somebody with quite conservative instincts, but who is very faithful to law, precedent, logic and argument.

He probably knows them as judges and as people better than all but a few other people.

The great benefit of this hearing is that we just went through it. It had to have helped her. You've got a whole transcript to see what people are interested in. It's an excellent road map.