Jay Roach Quotes
I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
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MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
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I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.
