Peter Landesman Quotes
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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One who is persistent will excel.
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The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
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The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.
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To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.
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No man has any influence or power for good when angry.
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Every second counts. We are only on this earth for a short amount of time, and we get to decide how we want to use that time. And if one thinks that the purpose of life is to leave the world in just a little bit better place than we found it, it's hard to think of anyone who has contributed more than Jane Goodall.
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Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.
