John Sayles Quotes
If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
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There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.
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It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?
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I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.
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Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and our reliance on oil will come to an abrupt and tumultuous end, causing global economic and social turmoil.
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But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.
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If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
