Iain Glen Quotes
A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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Without justice you won't have stability.
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I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.
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The profession is never going back to those days when a handful of wealthy people treated publishing like a hobby: one where the business can lose money because the family has lots of it to burn. Frankly, I don't think that model was ever sustainable, and it really only enriched a small number of writers.
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
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A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.
