Charles Ferguson Quotes
When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.
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I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.
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There is really no one who hasn't made mistakes in their career. I'm always shocked that people would be so surprised that I might make mistakes. Martin Scorsese has made mistakes - why can't I?
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I read 'Holes' in 10th grade, and I haven't read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.
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A strict allegory is like a puzzle with a solution: a great romance is like a flower whose smell reminds you of something you can't quite place. I think the something is 'the whole quality of life as we actually experience it.'
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I feel as a woman of color, I just don't want my art to be owned by a white man.
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When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.
