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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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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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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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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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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Acting's boring.
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Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.
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If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
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I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes)
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I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.
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The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.
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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?
