Joel Silver Quotes
I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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During one of his uncannily well-timed impromptu visits to my restaurant, Union Square Cafe, Pat Cetta taught me how to manage people. Pat was the owner of a storied New York City steakhouse called Sparks, and by that time, he was an old pro at running a fine restaurant.
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I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
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Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.
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I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.
