Nina Jacobson Quotes
Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.
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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
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I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
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There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.
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I've done about 15 movies and four television series in Mexico. My last two movies were the highest grossing in Mexican-cinema history - 'Nosotros los Nobles' and 'Instructions Not Included.'
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'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
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You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.
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I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
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I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.
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The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results.
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Falling in love with somebody is like a rush of heroin, and trying to break up with somebodyis like trying to kick heroin.
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Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.
