Adam Green Quotes
With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
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My father was very political. But he told me, "Be very careful when you get into politics, because there's no black and white. There's an in-between in everything. So look at that side, don't take one point, because then you are negating half of the other people. Try to find the logic on a problem, something that you believe, and take the position that you believe, but be very careful about it." So I was very well trained in that aspect.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.
