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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Though not a true cereal but a fruit, buckwheat seeds resemble cereal grains and are often used in a similar way to rice, barley, bulgar or quinoa, usually as a side dish.

  

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• It so happens, in Malaysia, the people who are in a way not doing as well constitute the majority of the people - the Bumiputeras.

  

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• I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

  

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• When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.

  

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• The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.

  

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• You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

  

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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.

  

  Steven Zaillian
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