Milos Forman Quotes
When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it comes to the box office.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.
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I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
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I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains; that is precisely how it felt to me.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment.
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it comes to the box office.
