Robert Zemeckis Quotes

Because movies have gotten so expensive, and they're so expensive to market, that means that for a movie to break even or to make its money back, everybody has to go see the movie, and if everybody has to go see the movie, then it can't be about anything.

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• A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Sleep

• I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Time
  • Society
  • Anniversary

• Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Best
  • Place

• I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Doing

• History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • History
  • Free

• Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Never
  • Smart
  • Living

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Player
  • Name
  • Makes

• It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Long
  • Said
  • Difference

• I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.

  

  Valerie June
  • Song
  • Me
  • Down

• I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Music
  • Things
  • Architecture

• I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Way
  • Goal
  • Conscious

• A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • World
  • Want
  • Career

• I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

  

  Beck
  • Done
  • Me
  • Couple

• Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Understanding
  • Break

• It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Like
  • See
  • Place

• I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Hungry
  • Eater

• I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Long
  • Man
  • Emotion

• If I'm home alone, I just dance... it's my own little secret.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Home
  • Dance
  • Secret

• Obviously, the real test of these regulations will be their implementation, ... It is absolutely critical that the Air Force leadership ensure that these regulations are well understood and strictly enforced, especially at the Air Force Academy.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Real
  • Air
  • Leadership

• I go to work and get to hang out with nothing but my kind of guys!

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Go

• Originally, I started acting because I showed interest in movies and TV.

  

  Gage Munroe
  • Movies
  • Because
  • Originally

• Because movies have gotten so expensive, and they're so expensive to market, that means that for a movie to break even or to make its money back, everybody has to go see the movie, and if everybody has to go see the movie, then it can't be about anything.

  

  Robert Zemeckis
  • Because
  • Anything
  • Everybody