Akiva Goldsman Quotes
If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.
Quotes to Explore
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.
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Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.
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I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
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It's fun to move people musically.
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
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Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
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A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
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Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
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There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.
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I ride really well and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked. I love them, but there's been very few of them made. I never wanted to play a guy who was acting like a cowboy. I wanted to play someone who had a real life, but was also trapped into situations.
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What bother me, not "bother me," exactly; that's not the right way to put it. But especially in the horror genre, once a movie like Paranormal Activity comes out and becomes popular - and that's a totally fine and valid movie - everyone starts copying it. Everything becomes a found-footage movie that looks like somebody shot it with their phone.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
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Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable.
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One of the defining features of the Anthropocene is that the world is changing in ways that compel species to move, and another is that it’s changing in ways that create barriers—roads, clear-cuts, cities—that prevent them from doing so.
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I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.
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I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.
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I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
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If we don't keep people engaged, we're not going to move you. And if we move you, we've done something useful. That's what anybody who writes genre knows.
