Lee Siegel Quotes
'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.
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Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an actual maze, every branch of which leads to a further junction. This may also be a metaphor.
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I think that as a director, especially when it comes to writing the script, which I also do, and I'm also the first one to visualize this story, I think contributing to the film industry means I'm able to take the best of a story and translate it well into a movie that can be released in theaters.
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Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.
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American television is popular everywhere and its what I grew up on.
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'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.
