Chris Meledandri Quotes
We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
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While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
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When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
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My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood.
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I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called a Watergate, and some guy named Gerald Ford who my dad knew who had just become president, and how all these things fit together.
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I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.
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One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder' she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people.
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I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.
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We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
