Robert Zemeckis Quotes
Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.
Quotes to Explore
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.
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At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
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The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.
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You think homosexuality is disgusting? Then, it follows as the night the day, that you find sex disgusting, for there is nothing done between two men or two women that is, by any objective standard, different from that which is done between a man and a woman.
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People don't become gay, bisexual, pansexual, transexual. People just fall in love with another person.
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When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.
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World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
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Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.
