Alex Kurtzman Quotes
What your character does for a living is one of the most important choices you can make in a screenplay, even if their job is tangential to the story, because it tells you everything about the condition of their life. Are they doing what they love? Are they doing what they hate?
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare.
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Lou was a great person to work with. His service was a real benefit to the community.
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I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.
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What your character does for a living is one of the most important choices you can make in a screenplay, even if their job is tangential to the story, because it tells you everything about the condition of their life. Are they doing what they love? Are they doing what they hate?
