Steven Zaillian (Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian) Quotes
The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
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In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
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It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.
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There's the meat eaters and there's us. And that's the way I look at the world.
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The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
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Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.
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The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.
