Harold Budd Quotes
I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
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It is wrong when we, in effect, throw safe and sound financial institutions into the same category with banks and lenders that climbed too far out on a limb with no way to return.
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There are no ordinary moments.
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You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.
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I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
