Jay Roach Quotes
I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
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Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
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The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
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One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.
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I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear out of nowhere, like out of a dream or an image that I've seen in a book, or even the title of a book that I'm staring at on a shelf. It's a good way to write songs, just stare at a bookshelf!
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The tendency to think that a city can build itself out of decline is an example of the edifice error, the tendency to think that abundant new building leads to urban success. Successful cities typically do build, because economic vitality makes people willing to pay for space and builders are happy to accommodate. But building is the result, not the cause, of success. Overbuilding a declining city that already has more structures than it needs is nothing but folly.
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My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.
