#premise

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#around #available #cameras #characters #crew

That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers. ↗

— Ed Markey

#american consumers #arabians #consumers #got #hand

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs. ↗

— Tim Bray

#based #costs #culture #decades #defensive

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#funny #laugh #people #premise #simple

Well, your premise is correct, that we have to first guard against those who have an affiliation with terrorists and a connection, and so we have watch lists and systems that can make that connection. ↗

— Asa Hutchinson

#against #connection #correct #first #guard

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#because #drops #fascinated #favorite #fiction

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance. ↗

— Dan Abrams

#away #because #dishonest #disturbance #does

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending. ↗

— George P. Baker

#best #character #ending #enough #farce

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#capacity #creation #premise #puzzled #science

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#assertions #authentic #consequence #credible #defined