David Zucker Quotes
Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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I want to work with great directors. I've picked films based on the script or the character and seen them collapse because the directors were not strong visionaries.
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I just want to compete and do what I love.
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I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.
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It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
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This is a medical service. It always was.
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They were most correct, according to their god.
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First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.
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The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.
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The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
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I'm definitely a city kid.
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Take care of each man as though he were your own brother. He is.
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Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.
