Sam Elliott Quotes
I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
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When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched. That was something I not only felt, but I participated in.
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I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
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'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.
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When I was a kid, I used to listen to my Emerson radio late at night under the covers. I started by listening to jazz in the late 1940s and then vocal harmony groups like the Four Freshmen, the Modernaires and the Hi-Lo's. I loved Stan Kenton's big band - with those dark chords and musicians who could swing cool with individual sounds.
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My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.
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It takes a long time to drag myself out of bed, and at night I'm buzzing. As a young man it was helpful, but now I'd like to be tired when I go to bed and alive in the morning.
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I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
