Brian Grazer Quotes
Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better version of themselves, but you cannot change them 180 degrees to be someone they are not.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.
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Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
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When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
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I only cook when I'm in love.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
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This is why we may say that those who parade piety as a purpose and an aim mostly turn into hypocrites
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The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities
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I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.
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I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a visual artist. I think we have a lot in common. And my first film had a very tight structure, narratively.
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You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
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Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.
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Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better version of themselves, but you cannot change them 180 degrees to be someone they are not.
