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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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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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 never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.
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All of the guys I know from Jersey held onto this feeling of, 'We're always just working.'
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I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.
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When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.
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You only live once, so enjoy the ride.
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The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith.
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While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.
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I know! I know! But it's really coming out. They say they want it out for September 20th, I say the 27th.
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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.
