Michael Ritchie Quotes
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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Being queen is overrated.
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I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
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I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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I think that young people are going to continue on with the work on pluralism for two reasons, really. One is because it's the reality of the world that they live in, and I think young people from different backgrounds are asking themselves, what does it mean for me to be a Buddhist and friends with a Baptist?
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One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.
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Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.
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But I definitely don't think this is the right time to discuss this. Gambling is a very, very divisive issue. And right now we need to spend all our time reaching consensus on how to rebuild our infrastructure, bring our people back home and offer incentives to businesses to get them up and running.
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I'll campaign for anyone who's honest and who I like, irrespective of the party.
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The audience includes subscribers, so you have to be careful.
