Dan Glickman Quotes
The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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In Europe and Sweden, we see boobs on TV, and it's not a big deal. Everyone has them; everyone has seen them.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
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I've always got something to say.
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I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.
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I couldn't wait to leave school. So I did it as soon as I possibly could at 16. I had no clue what I wanted to do next other than being at school wasn't it and that I was desperate to make my own way as soon as I could.
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Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.
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The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
