Joe Russo Quotes
There's nothing I hate more than going to see a movie and thinking, 'That could have been an hour shorter.'
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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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 don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.
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I practice a personal meditation and have a gala apple before each show.
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We benefit from foreign direct investment. Many Americans are employed by foreign companies with plants in the United States, for example in the automobile industry. So, trade is a two way street. I think, it is important to protect Americans who lose their jobs, or whose jobs come under pressure from international trade. But, I think, we need to be careful not to embrace economic isolationism.
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I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more.
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I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand.
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I plan on working out for the first part of the day, because if I let my day get away from me, the workout is out the window!
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There's nothing I hate more than going to see a movie and thinking, 'That could have been an hour shorter.'
