Neil Portnow (Neil R. Portnow) Quotes
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.
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My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.
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There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.
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We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.
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When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
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I wasn't really fashion-conscious earlier.
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I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
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I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.
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I'm just someone who cannot fake it. I can only do something with my full heart invested or just not do it at all.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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We live in a time of fake news - things that are made up and manufactured.
