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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Health clubs aren't healthy. In New York City, which has the most stairs of anywhere in the country, people pay money to go to a health club and use a stair master. When you live in a city, that has nothing but stairs and you pay money to use special stairs, that is not healthy behavior. It's fucking PSYCHOTIC!
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The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
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In addition to my comedic sensibilities, I also have a love of science. I think that it would be nice if, by the time we're doing the next version of 'Roger Rabbit,' it would be nice if I was receiving my Nobel prize the same week.
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People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid.
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The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.
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Opportunities are abundant, but most people are afraid to do the work.
