Brian Grazer Quotes
No one in Hollywood really knows what a good idea is before a movie hits the screens. We only know if it's a good idea after it's done.
Quotes to Explore
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don't enrich uranium. You don't need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
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Once, I was out of the house 93 days in a year. I was missing grandparents' days at schools and kids' birthdays and Valentine's Day, not to mention the fact that when you're on the road, you can't get anything done. I had to learn to say 'No,' cut back on travel.
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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.
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The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.
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There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.
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No one in Hollywood really knows what a good idea is before a movie hits the screens. We only know if it's a good idea after it's done.
