Michael Eklund Quotes
If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
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What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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One cabbie chastened me by saying that the fashion industry was doing harm to young people, who are trying to live up to an unrealistic ideal. It prompted me to make body image and diversity key issues on 'The Business of Fashion.'
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Calling this production 'postponed' does not disguise the fact that it has been cancelled.
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I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.
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I wanted to come back with the team I grew up with.
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Great pressure was put on the editor, David Schneiderman, to not run the strip of Jules Feiffer. It was offensive. It was racist. And nobody apparently read the strip and saw what it was about. And I wrote a column about that.
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So I talk to the dead. They're the only ones who can see the whole story. All they've got is story.
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If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.
