Robert Zemeckis Quotes
I'm in a constant conflict about having to make a movie for the big and the small screen at the same time, stylistically. So I just basically make it for the large screen.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.
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I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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I had no way to have a sense of humor about The Exorcist. I didn't know how. And this enabled me.
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I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.
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Big government makes small citizens.
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Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.
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The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.
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Truth crushed to the earth will rise again!
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The intention of being married is the vow, right? You want to put everything into it to make it a success.
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People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."
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The virtues therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.
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Being a part of independent-film world, the independent-film community, that's what you do. You support each other. If someone's doing a movie and you trust them, you roll the dice. Sometimes it's gonna be good, sometimes it's gonna be something that's like, "Oh I don't know what the hell that is." But I've been more fortunate than not to have it work well.
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A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.
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Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.
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The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.
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If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.
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But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.
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On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant fear, but we can't live without any. The fear of loss is essential to love.
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
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I'm in a constant conflict about having to make a movie for the big and the small screen at the same time, stylistically. So I just basically make it for the large screen.
