Michael Winterbottom Quotes
From my experience working with comedians, there is that competitive aspect. With actors, for instance, they don't want to look competitive even if they are, whereas comedians, I think, are openly happy to play on the idea that they all compete with each other to get the laughs. There's something about comedy, I think, that encourages that. There's this kind of schoolboy sense of wanting to top the other person that we play off of to show them competing for who's smarter or cleverer.
Michael Winterbottom
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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Alan Price
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John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.
Andre Previn
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Anna Faris
When you turn on the TV, you hear bad stuff, all the time.
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Jorge M. Perez
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The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
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A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.
Kevin Costner
If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences appreciate something that is distinctive and different. Everyone always throws out this figure, 'Jazz is now down to three percent of the total record sales.' So does that mean it is not important? I think if we agree that human culture itself is important, then I think those three percent take on a greater significance.
Dave Douglas
From my experience working with comedians, there is that competitive aspect. With actors, for instance, they don't want to look competitive even if they are, whereas comedians, I think, are openly happy to play on the idea that they all compete with each other to get the laughs. There's something about comedy, I think, that encourages that. There's this kind of schoolboy sense of wanting to top the other person that we play off of to show them competing for who's smarter or cleverer.
Michael Winterbottom
