Steven Blum Quotes
'Toonami' was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.
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Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.
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Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
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When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
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I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.
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Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.
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Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
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I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.
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Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.
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People view the police not as allies, but as antagonists, and think of them not with respect or gratitude, but with suspicion and distrust.
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I'm grateful for my health, glad I'm making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I don't take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. It's a gratitude list. It works.
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
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Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.
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Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.
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The industry in Japan moving toward CGI is not as severe and extreme as in the U.S. The animation industry in the U.S. is firing 2D animators and closing those studios, but I think it's possibly because the national traits of the U.S. prefer super-realism. Since Japan is a country that prefers plane vision, I don't think we will leave 2D and substitute hand-drawing with CGI entirely.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
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Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.
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'Toonami' was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.
