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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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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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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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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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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Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
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The character we've always thought of as the Wicked Witch of the West is a green girl who's actually very good, misunderstood, and trying to make her way in the world. She's an outsider looking in, wanting to be loved. That's a universal experience that everyone's felt at some point in their lives.
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What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
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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.
