John Sayles Quotes
I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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I'm proud that Della was sort of a prototype for TV secretaries. There really was no such established character on TV when 'Perry Mason' came along.
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
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That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.
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Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.
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Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
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It's been quite the experience for two brothers who were Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, who had no idea that they were going to end up in the entertainment industry. To be where we are now, making features, TV shows and getting a hundred million views online is kind of an amazing thing.
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Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
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I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.
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I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
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It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.
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You don't like her. My mother don't like her. She's a dog and I'm a fat, ugly man. Well, all I know is I had a good time last night. I'm gonna have a good time tonight. If we have enough good times together, I'm gonna get down on my knees and I'm gonna beg that girl to marry me.
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The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.
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The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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I have this whole thing that when God gives you more that you have imagined, you should give it back.
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I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.
