Quotes by Scott Raab

Scott Raab

A movie is a miracle, even if it turns out to be a disappointment.

Disappointment

Miracle

Turns

Actors are the neediest people you’re ever going to meet. And their relationship to real life, tenuous though it is because of all the wranglers, the money, everyone throwing everything at them every day of their lives -I think they’re pretty much who they were before.

Real

Real Life

Thinking

Do I believe the execution will work out? Les Moonves said yes to Survivor based partly upon my show Eco-Challenge. He liked my way of filming outdoors. It was the first use of helicopters on a documentary with the gyro-stabilized lenses. And a certain beauty of filming, allowing the drops to fall from a leaf into a puddle, allowing a spider to weave a web. Taking the breath to allow that to happen rather than showing scene after scene.

Believe

Fall

Work Out

Even if a movie’s not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It’s the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best.

Firsts

Levels

Pay

For each show, we do maybe 15 versions before it goes on air. So I know every show microscopically.

Air

Goes On

Shows

I remember when I had my show [The Chris Rock Show on HBO], I used to run my show. It was so hard to get people to bring sketches to me. No one had ever worked for a black person before. Even the black people hadn’t worked for a black person. It literally took a month or two for everybody to know: I’m really running the show.

Hbo

Running

Two

I’m consciously working very hard at not eating.

Eating

Hard

Working Very Hard

If you are the leader, you don’t have the right to say things like “Ugh, didn’t eat this week I was so busy.” “Haven’t slept.” I look sideways at those signs of bravado, which are intended to make one feel that the person is working so hard. I don’t think that way.

Leader

Looks

Thinking

In the British military system, there is a very strict chain of command. Americans just want to win, and the correct strategy may be to speak directly to the men.

Men

Military

Winning

My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms.

Dad

Guy

Tattoo

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Quotes by Scott Raab

Scott Raab

A movie is a miracle, even if it turns out to be a disappointment.

Actors are the neediest people you’re ever going to meet. And their relationship to real life, tenuous though it is because of all the wranglers, the money, everyone throwing everything at them every day of their lives -I think they’re pretty much who they were before.

Even if a movie’s not a hit, it still has to have something to do with the big thing, which is the stand-up. It pays the most, first of all. It’s the thing that I can do at a high, high level. Amongst the best.

For each show, we do maybe 15 versions before it goes on air. So I know every show microscopically.

I’m consciously working very hard at not eating.

If you are the leader, you don’t have the right to say things like “Ugh, didn’t eat this week I was so busy.” “Haven’t slept.” I look sideways at those signs of bravado, which are intended to make one feel that the person is working so hard. I don’t think that way.

In the British military system, there is a very strict chain of command. Americans just want to win, and the correct strategy may be to speak directly to the men.

My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms.

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