Colin Callender Quotes
When I started producing it was right at the beginning Channel 4 in England. Nicholas Nickelby which was my first credit as a producer was Contract 001 at Channel 4 - that was the start of independent production in England and the emergence of an independent sector.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.
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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.
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I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
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Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just a natural part of our lives. But, within the music industry and within the industry of the critiques of music, where it becomes "Ziggy's music is not as good as Bob's music," I don't understand. But I don't really pay much attention to that because I'm just expressing myself.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for them to come out. The big ones have been comedies, but I would love to get a big drama to let people see the other side of me, that I am a serious actress.
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When I started producing it was right at the beginning Channel 4 in England. Nicholas Nickelby which was my first credit as a producer was Contract 001 at Channel 4 - that was the start of independent production in England and the emergence of an independent sector.
