Background Quote by Jake Gyllenhaal

I was in really good shape after I finished this movie, 'End of Watch.'

— Michael Pena

'End of Watch' was 98-percent written, and I work really hard to make it look like it's the first time I'm saying it.

— Michael Pena

For me, and most actors I know, doing background research is an essential part of 'finding a character.'

— Rebecca Root

“background-research process, which combines exposure to potentially relevant material with free-form re-combination of ideas, comes straight out of Steven Johnson’s book, Where Good Ideas…

— Cal Newport

David Ayer was put on my map, at that point, and I always kept note and clocked his career. When he started directing, I…

— Joe Manganiello

People are disappointed when the world doesn't end on their watch.

— Damon Lindelof

“Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It’s the end. If the watch doesn’t work…

— Yann Martel

I watched, for the 17th and hopefully the last time, The 'Guns of Navarone' on New Year's Eve. I always watch just in case…

— David Cameron

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.

— Ry Cooder

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in…

— Rick Santorum

You are given certain skills, and if you don't use them effectively, you are being irresponsible.

— Greg Gianforte

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

— David Copperfield

I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some pages. It's…

— Charlie Huston

When you're doing martial arts, you feel like you can master certain skills and be so much more in control of who you are,…

— Milla Jovovich

“Our world is filled with people who have only a shallow knowledge of certain skills and have remained like that for so many years…

— Sunday Adelaja