Peter Billingsley Quotes
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
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I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
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I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
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Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
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The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
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Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?
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I tend to play 'tortured' a lot, whether it's physically or emotionally.
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There is the real person I am, and there is the stage persona.
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The army of brokers, jobbers and other quaintly named parasites.
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I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
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Why would you want to remake a movie that has endured for more than 25 years?
