George Nolfi Quotes
The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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I first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme ["sea of oblivion"], and then sorted them out by grouping them into islands of ideas.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.
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The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.
