Bill Forsyth Quotes
I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.
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One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.
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There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.
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If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.
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They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
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And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.
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I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.
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As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.
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Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.
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I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
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Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.
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I got a lot of fans who are not even into fashion. So they look at me and wear what I wear because it's cool or looks cool.
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When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.
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He did fan on the one, there's no question about that. But he didn't have much of a team in front of him.
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In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.
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I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything.
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I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
