Maz Jobrani Quotes

As a Middle Eastern male, when you're in a Chuck Norris movie of the week, you know you're going to die.

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• Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Die
  • Old
  • Generation

• When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Die

• It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Movie
  • You
  • Learn

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Listen

• One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Next

• The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Real
  • You
  • Die

• In every movie I do have a dialogue.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Movie
  • Dialogue
  • Every

• I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Movie
  • Loved
  • Really

• I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • People
  • Character
  • Job

• As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movie

• If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Movie
  • Talent

• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Good
  • Family
  • Sports

• Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Movie

• The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Believe
  • Movie
  • You

• I've always said if I had to pinpoint what's more important in a scary movie, the soundscape or the visuals, I'd pick the sound.

  

  James Wan
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Scary

• When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Words

• I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.

  

  James Michael Aloysius Bradford
  • Life
  • Control
  • Angry

• On visiting India this time, because of my previous visit, I did have a certain amount of knowledge about the country, but I also felt that there was much greater interest in Japan and deeper interaction between the two countries now than the last time I was there.

  

  Akihito
  • Time
  • Country
  • Knowledge

• I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
  • Trying
  • School
  • Artist

• As a Middle Eastern male, when you're in a Chuck Norris movie of the week, you know you're going to die.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Movie
  • Die