Jason Blum Quotes
The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything can stall a film from financing to scheduling to casting. Things fall apart all the time. Don't waste time on something that just won't get made. Try to have as many projects going at one time as you can handle.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right.
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I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.
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If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
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The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything can stall a film from financing to scheduling to casting. Things fall apart all the time. Don't waste time on something that just won't get made. Try to have as many projects going at one time as you can handle.
