Ziad Doueiri Quotes
The world is going on a high-speed connection; the Arab revolution is still dial-up. So we have to give it a little time to download. Regimes come and go, but art endures.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
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Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.
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My wife loves to get all dressed up and go out, and I'm this gloomy Virgo. It works because of the mutual recognition that we are two democratic narcissists. She does what she has to do, and I do what I have to do. We respect that.
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At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.
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I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
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The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill.
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The world is going on a high-speed connection; the Arab revolution is still dial-up. So we have to give it a little time to download. Regimes come and go, but art endures.
