Brian Lindstrom Quotes
It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
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We're in the service business by nature, but when we can transition that into ownership things, we love it. Our clients love it, too. We get deluged with offers to get involved with this or that. Silver Lake helps us funnel those opportunities.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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Somewhere down the line, I realised that dairy products were giving me acidity, so now I am a vegan.
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In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.
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That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.
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It has been said that Homer was the Bible of the Greeks. The remark exactly misses the truth. The Greeks fortunately had no Bible, and this fact was both an expression and an important condition of their freedom. Homer's poems were secular, not religious, and it may be noted that they are freer from immorality and savagery than sacred books that one could mention.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
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It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.