Jason Blum Quotes
Sundance is such an acquisition-frenzied, industry-centric experience, and at SXSW, many of the movies have distribution. And the focus is more on positioning the movie as opposed to selling them. People are more relaxed.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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I like being unconventional.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you sort of know what righteous means, you know, if you listen to a lot of Bob Marley. According to all the biblical scholars we talked to, righteousness is the proper balance of justice and mercy. If you think of that, as a parent, you know that if you have too much justice and you're too strict, you destroy a child. If you have too much mercy, as a parent, you destroy a child as well. A big part of this movie is Noah finding mercy for man.
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With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.
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I'm definitely going to love my time here in New York, ... We've got a great team. We have a great coach. Any time you have people like that pushing you to be better, it's hard for you to do otherwise.
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Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?
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We have got a - we've got a good federal work force, but we have too many people, and we're paying them too much money.
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Sundance is such an acquisition-frenzied, industry-centric experience, and at SXSW, many of the movies have distribution. And the focus is more on positioning the movie as opposed to selling them. People are more relaxed.
