Chris Bohjalian Quotes
On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And if it's for TV, I'll ask myself, 'Is it a show that I'd watch?' If it's a play or movie, I'll want to know if there's a good director attached.
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Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.
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When 'Games of Thrones' is finished, I'm not one to go on about it too long and rest on one's laurels. The stuff that interests me is the work.
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The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.
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I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.
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On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.
