Douglas Trumbull Quotes
Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering.
Quotes to Explore
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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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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Police can only act on intelligence.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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The media is controlled.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
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I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
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I'm not a movie star, but I've been an actress forever, and the first time I went on a date with my husband, he said to me, 'So I hear you're an actress. I've never seen anything you've done.' We were like, oh gosh, 21 when I met him, and I laughed, because I'd done 'Life Goes On,' and 'Christy,' and I mean, I'd been working forever.
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Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering.
