Jason Blum Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
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I look to work with businesses that know what they are doing but need larger distribution or exposure.
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Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.
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Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn't until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn't skinny thin.
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We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?
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I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.
