Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
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Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
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As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.
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The fact that I've managed to find a husband who understands and respects everything I do is astonishing.
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With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
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Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.
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The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.
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When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.
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There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.
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Try till you succeed...if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!
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I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!
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We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world
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The kid that showed up (Maddox), that's incredible. I mean, she wasn't even on our radar. It's kind of interesting with us. Probably the best thing that happened to Temple was that their point guard went down, because then our brains went to sleep and we no longer focused on the guards. It was confusion, at the very least.
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I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.
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I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
