Akiva Goldsman Quotes
Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
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Good material is good material.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
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I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
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If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
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I have dangerous bones in my body.
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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
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It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.
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The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.
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Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.
