Paul Greengrass Quotes
Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.
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I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.
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I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.
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The reason I moved to Nashville was because I was reading biographies of a lot of my country music heroes, and I thought it would be better to actually go where the history was, as opposed to just reading about it.
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You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.
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Maybe you're not his type." Michael said "Oh, now you're just being insulting.
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I was in the projects dreaming about doing music and now I've done music. When I had nothing to when I had something I still have this driving force that's fueling me every day and that's making ideas reality.
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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I bully myself cause I make me do what I put my mind to.
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To help with knowing if you're good or not, you need a mentor.
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Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the advertising. But that is not the problem of the advertiser.
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I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.
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I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors have a lot more choice. I do think there's an audience out there for small films. It's obvious to me what the studios do: they've co-opted independent film. They all have their independent arm. They can afford to crush the competition.
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That number should really increase after we win on the appeal that the city filed. People right now are not applying because they are chilled by the fact that the city is not complying with the court ruling.
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True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.
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Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.
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Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.
