John M. Ford Quotes
The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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People used to call her Debbie Reynolds' daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia's mother!
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A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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Being inducted seems to mean a lot to a lot of people, and by proxy that has sort of rubbed off on me. But it's not necessarily a mandate from the masses, so I don't know. We'll see.
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The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.
