Norman Jewison Quotes
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
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You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
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I love doing kids' films.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
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I write in the studio.
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I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
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My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!
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The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.
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I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.
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I support all Australian films.
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I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.
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My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.
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At Marshall Field in Chicago, I had them take a big bed into the menswear department, one with black sheets. I'd get in bed wearing a nightcap, and my fans would get in bed with me, one at a time, and I'd sign their memorabilia. And then I'd give them a free pint of Ben & Jerry's.
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I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.
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The Upper Palaeolithic figures known as ‘wounded men’ occur at Cougnac and Pech Merle, two sites in the Quercy district of France.
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In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
