Charles Roven Quotes
In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.
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I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'
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Medicines are only fit for old people.
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Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?
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It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
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What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
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I believe that change keeps you young.
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I pay attention to the sun. I've worn sunglasses while I play, for years, and apply sunscreen. No matter where I'm playing, there's a rain suit in my bag, too.
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There's this weird kind of coming-in-from-left-field thing going on, and I love it - I am a huge fan of Christopher Durang.
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Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.
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Because I came into acting late, my references come from real life. That's my biggest inspiration. It's probably the reason I moved back to New York. I'm just a lot more inspired by real life than I am by depictions of real life.
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In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.
