David Puttnam Quotes
My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.
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Believe me, sequels are just as hard to make as original films.
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English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
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My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.
