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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Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.
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'Let him talk as he will!' scoffed Zamp. 'His motives are not at all obscure.'
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Zuvörderst nämlich wird eine Regierung nicht Leute besolden, um Dem, was sie durch tausend von ihr angestellte Priester, oder Religionslehrer, von allen Kanzeln verkünden läßt, direkt, oder auch nur indirekt, zu widersprechen. … Daher der Grundsatz improbant secus docentes.
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I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep.
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I remember it as if it were today... seeing him [Che] framed in the viewfinder, with that expression. I am still startled by the impact... it shakes me so powerfully. (On his iconic photo of Che Guevara)
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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.