Irwin Winkler Quotes
As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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I have to live up to the love I am receiving.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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I would not want to be a part of any project that I feel would not work. An actor like me always wants to work to get appreciation of the audiences. And appreciation can only come if people will come to watch the film.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
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As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.
