Harold Prince Quotes
It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.
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Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
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I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play.
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I make bad decisions frequently. They're fun.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. To the extent that the proclamation of emancipation is not fulfilled in fact, to that extent we shall have fallen short of assuring freedom to the free.
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Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'
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It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.
