Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi) Quotes
I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors have a lot more choice. I do think there's an audience out there for small films. It's obvious to me what the studios do: they've co-opted independent film. They all have their independent arm. They can afford to crush the competition.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
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I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.
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The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.
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In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.
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I think distribution has become a lot harder. With the whole explosion of digital video, there's just a lot more people making films. Distributors have a lot more choice. I do think there's an audience out there for small films. It's obvious to me what the studios do: they've co-opted independent film. They all have their independent arm. They can afford to crush the competition.
