Tim Finn Quotes
I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.
Quotes to Explore
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant, resilient person in American political history.
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I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.
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I always choose to remember the moment that was the best of Jeanne Cooper - those photos where she's in that wild dress triumphantly hoisting up the Emmy the night she finally won the damn thing. She was so proud, so happy.
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
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For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.
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I'm doing stuff on Kaballah and Scientology and a little bit more racial stuff, for good measure.
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I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.
