William Friedkin Quotes
Even with some of the best action films like 'The Bourne Ultimatum,' which is a great action film with a great chase sequence, so much of it is computer-generated. But that doesn't bother me. I think it works. It's fantastic.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
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There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.
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In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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I worry about leaders in complex situations who don't have enough experience, who are just going with their intuition and not monitoring it, not thinking about it.
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My husband's name is Christopher Morgan, and we met in Atlanta. My two children are Sebastian and Quincy.
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You are NOT what you eat, you are what you digest and assimilate.
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Could you ever completely give up on someone that you loved? From her painful experience with Travis, Lily didn’t think so..
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Athlete or not, I’m going to make sure you know how to read.
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Even with some of the best action films like 'The Bourne Ultimatum,' which is a great action film with a great chase sequence, so much of it is computer-generated. But that doesn't bother me. I think it works. It's fantastic.
