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.'
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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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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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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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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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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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My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Chicago is my home. And the way Chicago sounds will always be a part of who I am.
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I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.
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I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.
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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.'
