John Schlesinger Quotes
I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.
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I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
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If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.
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I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
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I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.
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My aunts still try to fatten me up.
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Family are the people that can hurt you the most.
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Now I've gotten to know more about the industry. And now that I'm over 18, I can work without my parents on set. That was nice and helped me get comfortable.
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I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.
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Everything is contemplated in the mind without meditation. We make a very complicated response. Just to look at a floating branch evokes very complicated objective and nonobjective responses. The artist must slow all this down, mentally. It is this mental experience that makes the representation of beauty possible.
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I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.
