Sean Durkin Quotations

We're battle-tested. We're pretty experienced. We're pretty confident coming in. The fact that these kids have been there and understand everything they're going to go through, I don't think it can do anything but help us.

She's the best I've ever coached. I've seen a lot of great players not only from this area, but around the state and she's the best that I've ever seen.

She walked into our gym as a thin, kind of spindly girl, but worked in the weight room and became a dynamic player.

She's just made herself into an unbelievable player. The younger kids really look up to her and are trying to follow her lead.

She can do so much on the floor. She can beat you in so many different ways. She's just an incredible person to watch.

She has enviable physical gifts and worked her skills to a level I haven't seen. There's not a physical tool she lacks.

She's able to do more than we're asking her to do. We're trying to be cautious. Tonight, we opened a big lead and we didn't want to risk anything.

Her number one attribute is her competitiveness. She refuses to let her team lose. She refuses to be stopped.

Playing in that venue for the first time, you're only human if you're a little bit in awe. It's a tremendous venue and the kids are excited just to be there.

I wasn't very happy with our defensive effort in the first half. We looked a little bit sluggish ? I think there was a little bit of a hangover from the Boardman game but we battled through it.

Whoever we play it certainly helps when you feel that you have the best player in the state on your team. Whenever she's in the game we feel we have a chance to win.

We had a lot of wood to chop. It's a shame the fairy tale ride had to end here.

When it got into crunch time, our two big kids made several key free throws and it staved them off.

We expected huge things out of her this year and it's really fitting that she's getting to exit high school basketball on the big stage. This is something she deserves.

The third quarter killed us. In the end, it was a little too much for us to overcome.

They're both different but equally satisfying. They're a little different in that the last time we shocked the world.

It's a tremendous feeling. I can't imagine a kid more deserving. She's as good a player as I've seen and she carries herself as well off the court as she does on.

It was a sloppy first quarter, but in the second quarter we cleaned it up a little bit and straighten things.

It's an honor. I think it's something for the program to where we're recognized as one of the better programs in the state. Really, though, it's a credit to the kids.

It never gets old. The chance to see your kids cut down nets is very special.

Once they took the lead, they were rolling. All the credit in the world goes to Jonathan Alder. They were well-coached and came prepared to play us.

Her character and maturity have been a big part of her success. She believes in herself and is confident in herself. She has a little bit of a swagger to her. Great players have that. It shows on the floor.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

I would like to do a sports movie.

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

I went to my first college to play soccer.

I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

You can't write something to please someone.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

I'm a believer in film school.