Joel Silver Quotes
The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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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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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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The writer is all alone.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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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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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
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If a show is a critical success but a ratings flop, I assume that people are just championing the show because it looks cool to root for an underdog.
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All rational action is economic. All economic activity is rational action. All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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I don't know if there's ever been a female-driven film or a male-driven film. I don't believe in that. I believe a film is a film - a movie can only work if everything about the film works.
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I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.
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The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.
