R. J. Cutler Quotes
With 'If I Stay,' I want you to feel that the whole story is being told from a larger, spiritual point of view. So the beginning is very theatrical.
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
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There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
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I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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I always had confidence in my game.
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No man fails who does his best.
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When I'm writing instrumental music, I try to find musical and non-musical inspirations.
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We in the Western world have grown to understand matter as imprisoned light, and light as liberated matter, yet this has had no influence on our spiritual thought. In practical terms it only led to the creation of the atom bomb.
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I would call myself more spiritual than religious.
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Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.
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I'm a huge Marvel fan and the fact that they take the liberties that they do in filmmaking I think, if anything, that it dignifies the comics and it says, "Yeah. This is a strong enough, robust enough source. We can bend it, it's elastic. It's bouncy."
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With 'If I Stay,' I want you to feel that the whole story is being told from a larger, spiritual point of view. So the beginning is very theatrical.
