Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness.
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I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
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In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They are apocalyptic visions that leave only a few people on earth-whole cities surviving under domes because we have depleted our natural resources. And often in these movies, for reasons that I question, we have space aliens who are always blowing up Washington, D.C., and the White House.
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Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
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As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Chicago, we came from the same 'hood.
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In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
