Steve Martin Quotes
I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.
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As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.
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The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith
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I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.
