Jeff Giles Quotes
Making a summer movie is like accepting a mission impossible: your enemies are everywhere, and if you fail, the studio's never heard of you.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
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All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.
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Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
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Making a summer movie is like accepting a mission impossible: your enemies are everywhere, and if you fail, the studio's never heard of you.
