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 love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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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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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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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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I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.
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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 ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.
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Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.
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We need to mark the difference between what another may offer, threaten, or refuse while respecting my liberty and what offers, threats, and refusals violate it. It is the line between my rights and the rights of another. Marking that line is liberty’s most difficult intellectual task.
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My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.
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I don't have the faith now. I certainly believe in Jesus - you know, that he existed and he was a very nice man. And who can disagree with a simple philosophy of treat other people like you'd like to be treated yourself? It's absolutely - nothing I can disagree with that.
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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.
