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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Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way to lose. To accept defeat - to learn to die - is to be liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to harmonize. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
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I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.
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I would see people on TV, or I'd see bands I really liked, and I thought, 'I want that.'
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The things I love about this business the most, is that it is a challenge trying to prove to everyone - including yourself - that you can do something different than what people think you're capable of.
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People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.
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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.
