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 worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.
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To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.
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None of us can take anything with us when we're gone. It's what we leave that's gonna matter.
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I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.
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At the time of my second marriage, my husband was in his early 50s, I was in my mid-40s, and we each had two kids. We maintained our individual accounts and opened one for the house. We each kick the same percentage of our incomes into the house account and have a joint credit card. But we pay for our children separately.
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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.
