John Ross Bowie Quotes
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.
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I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing gets broken. It's almost like they're in padded cells.
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I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
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It still baffles my brain that I actually get to portray a character on American television that's this gay, femme-y Filipino guy.
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To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.
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This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?
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When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.
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Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.
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Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.
