D. A. Pennebaker Quotes
I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.
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Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
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I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.
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I don't think it's an exciting thing to move back in with your parents.
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I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.
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My art practice is very detail-, labor- intensive and I think that that's a way of slowing myself down so that I can hear myself think. That quieter voice has sometimes the more interesting idea, if I can get to it.
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I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
