Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Quotes
It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.
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Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
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She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.
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‘Why are pictures like this allowed?’ he suddenly cried. He had stopped in front of a colonial print in which the martyrdom of St Agatha was depicted with all the fervour that incompetence could command.‘It’s only a saint,’ said Lady Peaslake, placidly raising her head.‘How disgusting – and how ugly’‘Yes, very. It’s Roman Catholic.’
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Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.
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I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.
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So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
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I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.
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It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.
