Narrowed Quotes

So nevertheless, what I`m saying is that what one is - one`s parameters are constantly narrowed by one`s success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

Something Wild was my first movie. I was in an acting class and on a soap opera for three-and-a-half years in New York - I moved to L.A. at 25 and nothing was really going on for like a five-year period. I was still in acting class, I was in class all through Goodfellas actually, and I talked to some of the guys and they said, Are you up for this movie, Something Wild?" and I said, "No." But I decided I really wanted to be up for it even though (Jonathan) Demme had already narrowed it down to three people. I`d been to college with Melanie Griffith`s then-husband Steven Bauer and I called her up and said, "y`know, can you get me in and I felt weird about it, but here I am, thirty years old and I haven`t done anything yet and I`d read the script and felt like I could do that as well as anyone out there so why not me?" She got me in, she insisted that Jonathan see me, and it just worked out with me." - On landing Something Wild.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

When it was narrowed down to eight names and I was called down for an interview, then it became more serious. Things went very fast.

The gap between our expectations and reality on the ground have narrowed considerably.

Signs were not posted to explain the detour. Thousands of vehicles had to make multiple lane merges and no one was there to help the process. Then the detour narrowed to a one-lane road through a business district.