Steve Tisch Quotes
I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.
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What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, or they've worked with me, or they know me, or we've met. So there's a lot of backstuff on the 'Vicki!' show.
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The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
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I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would think, 'Where is a place for me?' We were so damn poor that it just seemed too far beyond.
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I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time.
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Having day dreams, tonguing you down with, uh, vanilla ice cream. Kissing on your thigh in the moon light, searching your body with my tongue girl all night.
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A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
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If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.
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Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it had been made by our lips like a kiss which falls from our invincible heights to show the fire and the tenderness of a true love.
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I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.
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Each material is only what we make it.
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You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.
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During the Vietnam War era people were concerned about what was going on economically in their lives, and film studios were worried about what was going on with the box office
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I wanted people to watch. I wanted people to see us together. I wanted people to see us kissing today. I want everyone to know that you're mine.
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Friendship is only friendship when it is real. Passionate and relentless. Forgiving and joyful. Don't forget today to have real moments with your friends. Not a text, or a tweet, an Instagram-- that's all deceit. Hold real hands, kiss genuine lips, be a truly strong human force.
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There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.
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A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.
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When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
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Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
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Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.
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The experience, to create something from nothing and make it a huge success. It's the process that I love. Coming up with the melodies, picking the beat, the instrumentals, coming up with the lyrics. The process is a beautiful thing.
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I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.
