Joel Silver Quotes
I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.
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You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.
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When I start training, I get very serious and focused about it. I probably train 4-5 days a week, and I eat probably eat 5-8 small meals a day to keep my metabolism going.
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My old man worked for Pan American.
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I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada.
