Randal Kleiser Quotes
Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein – you know, popcorn movie.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am.
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I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein – you know, popcorn movie.
