Steve Albini Quotes
There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
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I always love performing live, and that's what I was doing that started getting me acting parts, so I still find time do it.
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Ride it when you retire.
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I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.
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There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently
