John Landis Quotes
After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
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The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.
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When I get bored, I'll zone out, and I'll just sit in front of my computer and start writing any random song that comes to mind.
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I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.
