Steven Zaillian (Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian) Quotes
People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I've had every hair style imaginable.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
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I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.
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I have had to learn about saying no.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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A film should appeal to sophisticated, profound-thinking people while at the same time entertaining simplistic people. A truly good movie is really enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. A truly good movie is interesting and easy to understand.
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I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs.
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We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.
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I'm lucky a couple of filmmakers have seen beyond what you're saying.
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People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.
