Robert Wise Quotes
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools necessary to meet the needs of a very diverse group of kids which exists in every class.
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He Corot is always the strongest, he has foreseen everything.
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Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
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Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.
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If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.
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Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.
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Carrie Fisher will always be an icon as Leia, but also as Carrie. She will live on forever.
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At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.
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I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.
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I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.
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We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.
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And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.
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For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
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War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
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Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP
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My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
