Jack Kirby Quotes
I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.
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Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
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Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.
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Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.
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I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
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Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
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My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
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Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
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For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world.
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My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
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Now a small woman, with dangerous curves. I could bite into her.
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I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.
