Kenneth Lonergan Quotes
There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
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I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
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I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
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My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
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You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.
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Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.
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I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.
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Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
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You request my presence at the Olympic Games, and for that reason you have sent envoys. For myself, I would come for the spectacle of physical struggle, except that I would be abandoning the greater struggle for virtue.
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There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.
