Ving Rhames Quotes
The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
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Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.
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Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
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But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.
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There are three kinds of yeses. There's commitment, confirmation, and counterfeit. People are most used to giving the counterfeit yes because they've been trapped by the confirmation yes so many times. So the way you master no is understanding what really happens when somebody says 'no.' When yes is commitment, no is protection.
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The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.
