Peter Landesman Quotes
Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
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Death is the beginning of something.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.
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The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
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So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
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There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.
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I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
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To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from this old concept and arrive at an image in which the spectator could feel the beauty of a fourth dimension, which lies much more between moments than within a moment. In music one remembers never one tone, but a melody, a theme, a movement. In dance, never a moment, but again the beauty of a movement in time and space.
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I think it was right to remove Saddam Hussein. I think it was the right decision then and I still think it was right now.
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Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not authority.
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Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent.
