Akiva Goldsman Quotes
As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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Movies are too literal.
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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
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The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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I love horror movies.
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My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.
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None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
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No one ever said movies are for developing your range. Hardly anyone gets that opportunity. Which is why I think the stage is so good. It's less bread, but you can play different types, and you can initiate your own projects.
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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
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I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.
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I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
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My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
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There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.
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My first summer in college, I interned for Arena Stage in D.C. and taught a disastrous class on standup comedy to middle schoolers at the Arena Stage camp. I had never taught anything before, and needless to say, I quickly lost control of the class.
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Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.
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Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.
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No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. There is stuff that is blown up on the Internet that isn't hugely successful with the entire world, and vice versa. I don't put a tremendous amount of stock in it, but at the same time, you always want people to like what you're doing. Certainly, to have come from an Internet background, we want to stay faithful and have people be supportive and happy with what we're doing.
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As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better.
