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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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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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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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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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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There, they tell me to wear the veil. Here, they are telling me to put my hips in a little girl's skirt, and I am this lovely full woman. You've got this Ph.D. and you're worrying, 'Am I skinny enough?'
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There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.
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There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.
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He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
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New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering.
