Brian Helgeland Quotes
I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.
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I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.
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I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.
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There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
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Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.
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I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.
