Frank Press Quotes
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Good comedy is ageless.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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I don't want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. This is a movie, this is your role, and you have to do it. Some people have to strive so hard to reach where they have and want to.
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You have to knock on doors. You can't keep your dreams a secret. You have to put them out there on display and people can say whatever they want but keep on pointing your actions towards your dreams.
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I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.
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I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.
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My original perception of wrestling was not a very positive one. I didn't understand it at all, and I thought it was kind of silly and ridiculous. But as I got to know it, it was sort of like how people used to talk about musicals, to me, when I was younger.
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It's a difficult question of relations between people.
