Matthew Heineman Quotes
I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater.
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Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.
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I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.
