Dan Futterman Quotes
I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing a television show, though. I actually think there are a couple of good ones. And there is some terrible theater. Film is a very different kind of acting.
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
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Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
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Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.
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As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
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We have never had a president of the United States or a nominee of a major party who was a Supreme Court law clerk.
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Cupid draw back your bow and let your arrow go straight to my lover's heart for me, for me...Cupid please hear my cry and let your arrow fly straight to my lover's heart for me.
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I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing a television show, though. I actually think there are a couple of good ones. And there is some terrible theater. Film is a very different kind of acting.
