Maximilian Schell Quotes
When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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I don't read books.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.
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A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.
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One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.
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Never hope for it more than you work for it.
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When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.
