Edwin Catmull Quotes
You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.
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I have a great team at WME.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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Film is anti-language.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.
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Baseball is a team game.
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I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
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I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.
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I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
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It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
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I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
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I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.
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Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.
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Let's say there are things about 'G.I. Joe' that you specifically expect and some things that need to be in the film at certain points, whether it be relationships or certain costume aspects.
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Team members need to be able to admit their weaknesses and mistakes, to acknowledge the strengths of others, and to apologize when they do something wrong.
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When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.
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I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
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A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.
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You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.
