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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I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
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If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
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I'm the type of person where, at the end of the game, if there's 10 seconds left, and you need to get somebody the ball, and you're behind by one, give me the ball. Get me the ball every single time.
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MLB is a special, but fairly priced, family fare.
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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.
