Lauren Shuler Donner Quotes
You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
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People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
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Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
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I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
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The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
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You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.
