John Landis Quotes
The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.
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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and Vietnam. They cause horrific deaths and are thus a serious public-relations liability. The U.S. military apparently phased them out in 1978.
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In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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I love to work in all sorts of different situations.
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That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.
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When I look down the range at the target all I can do is try to distinguish between the different colors.
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I know I wanted to be with somebody and have children. My heart comes before my work.
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A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open.
