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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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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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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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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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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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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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 always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.
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I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.
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Artur Schnabel, one of the towering pianists of the twentieth century. Modified in tone but not spirit from Schnabel’s interview remarks in Chicago the same year Germany surrendered to the Allies. She also knew this was about as high a compliment as Paul Mandelbaum was capable of making. Schnabel’s performances of the thirty-two Beethoven sonatas were possibly the only thing her mentor was capable of carrying on about ad nauseam. You were never going to enter his pantheon of star pupils unless you gave yourself over, heart and soul, to Schnabel’s interpretation of Beethoven’s Klaviersonaten and the virtuoso’s idea that the greatest music was that which is “better than it can be performed.
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I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
