Peter Landesman Quotes
When you're researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you're researching something for an article for 'The New York Times.'
Quotes to Explore
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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To survive is to win.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'
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To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.
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Nobody can ever describe how much you explore a character on a Peter Berg movie until you're doing it.
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Everyone works hard for each other, and if we're having an off day, everyone else is there to pick things up.
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Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.
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When you're researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you're researching something for an article for 'The New York Times.'
