Janet Maslin Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.
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I have had to learn about saying no.
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When I first watched 'Coraline,' I thought, 'If that ever got adapted...' If it was done by real actors, I think that would be a really fun thing to do, just because it's a kind of whole new universe.
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I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
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Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
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Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
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I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek' article about the emerging downtown club scene, and, well, that was it for NYU. I was off and running.
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Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
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Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.
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It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.
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I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.
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I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?'
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It's just great when my job makes me more curious.
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I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.
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The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.
