Oren Peli Quotes
I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
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When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.
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Movies are too literal.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.
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As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.
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The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.
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I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.
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9/11 allowed us to witness the ordinary face of goodness in the love that those about to die brought with them to work that day. It is fitting that we refer to a large segment of the church year as Ordinary Time because it describes the look of the true faith that, as we read of the Kingdom, is spread about us.
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I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.
