Peter Lindbergh Quotes
I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.
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One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
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Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
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I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.
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'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.
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The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.
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I think people are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact.
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There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.
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Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.
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In Mexico, we call it 'terco': the guy who goes out every day, and every day they tell him no, and the next day he's there, and the next day he's there. That's the kind of people who make movies in Mexico.
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I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.
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I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.
