Edith Head Quotes
We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.
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If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.
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Sometimes you fall out of love with what you do. Some days, you wake up and wish you worked on a farm.
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In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
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We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?
