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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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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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
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I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.
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If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?
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But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
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I'd rather look like a hobo and be super comfortable than wear something not comfortable.
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Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.
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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.
