Molly Ringwald Quotes
I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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Film is anti-language.
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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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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.
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I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.
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Many of the Western democracies - including the U.S. - have a problem that voters want benefits they don't want to pay for.
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The account of the face treatment that Catherine had undergone at the hands of a quack was taken from a description given to Elizabeth by Katherine Mansfield, her New Zealand cousin, of her own experience in Paris when she was searching for a cure for consumption. This may have been too tragic a source. If Elizabeth needed copy she had, if Frere is to be believed, her own experience to draw on.
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I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.
