Michael Lehmann Quotes
I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility.
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Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.
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I think of myself as an actor and not a movie star. I like doing movies; I enjoy it. But, essentially, I'm a theater actor. That's the only place I feel like I actually am a star. In the theater, I can put people in the seats and sell tickets.
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I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
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Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.
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Take this Hercules - this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies!
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We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and - our former riches.
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In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative; I loved the writing. I loved the making of it. Because, I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one.
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I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.
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I thought all those channels on cable TV were really cool.
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I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.
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I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I'm kind of clumsy.
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To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.
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Wilder would say, 'Ninety minutes for this picture is all my bum can take in a seat',
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility.
