Mike Binder Quotes
In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They're awash in overhead, and it's pinning them down, and they know it.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
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London 2012 was the biggest thing I will probably ever do, but I didn't realise it at the time!
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Language usage always has a political context.
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Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
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The future is out of my hands; it is in God's.
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I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.
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As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
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We know the president of the United States has no facts. No facts to back up his startling allegation that the former president of the United States, President Obama, wiretapped him in Trump Tower during the campaign.
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We're not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops, we're automatically going to make Americans safe.
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.
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The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
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To me it was so natural that companies should seek their own survival. I had seen nothing else in my life. Companies struggle to keep going and to grow, for as long as possible.
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So, instead, we are supplied with a constant stream of propaganda telling us about the righteous contempt that the people feel for the corrupt political class, which only serves to weaken the position of politicians still further, which in turn leads to a new round of gauntlet-running in the media. This process continues in a vicious circle, the inevitable culmination of which is the death of representative democracy, the complete impotence of politicians, and a hyper-real media dictatorship. This process is strengthened by feedback. Through the use of opinion polls, whose questions are obviously phrased by the media to serve their own purposes, the population is told what it thinks, and what it is “natural” to think. Then the media go on to show how adaptable politicians are adapting to this norm, or are allowing themselves to be adapted, and so the process goes on and on, ad infinitum. The investigations of the mass-media are, on their most profound level, investigations into the mass-media themselves. Statistics which purport to represent public opinion are actually the tools used by the media to manufacture opinion.
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In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They're awash in overhead, and it's pinning them down, and they know it.
