Bob Lefsetz Quotes
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.
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I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
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My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.
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But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
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What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
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Apollo is the greatest adventure of all humankind, and it needs to be recorded in every way possible for future generations in books, in movies and on television. … I’m an artist. That’s the way I care about things. Maybe 200 years from now, someone will say, 'I’m glad he did that.'
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Innovative cultures transparently document spending, admit mistakes, and ask how they can do better.
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When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels.
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Opportunities are abundant, but most people are afraid to do the work.
