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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Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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No one can live under degradation.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
