R. J. Cutler Quotes

I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, 'I know I really can do this with actors.'

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• My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

  

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• Islam means peace.

  

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• Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

  

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• Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

  

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• Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.

  

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• Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

  

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• I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.

  

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• The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.

  

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• I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

  

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• There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

  

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• But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.

  

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• My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.

  

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• By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

  

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• But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

  

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• To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.

  

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• Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

  

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• My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

  

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• I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.

  

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• The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

  

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• I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.

  

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• I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.

  

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• Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

  

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• The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.

  

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• I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, 'I know I really can do this with actors.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
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