Esteban Cortazar Quotes
I didn't just want to do something that looks good, but get a product that lasts too.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stage. Being a good performer, you know? Connected to that is future recordings, and future tunes, that kind of stuff.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
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The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
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I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.
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My aunt and uncle would come over when my mom was making this, or we would go over there when they were making that. That's what food is.
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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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…It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness’’ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!
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Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally approved of or even recognized at the time; they make fun of honored figures and piously held beliefs; and they view social pretenses with clear-eyed directness, remarking - as in Andersen's famous tale - that the emperor has no clothes.
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How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.
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You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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Photography is the product of complete alienation.
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If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns.
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We are trying to turn this program around so there is a great deal of enthusiasm with all of the kids. Fortunately they are all pushing each other.
