Marc Platt Quotes
The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I don't like controversy.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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I've got a great team around me with my family, manager and label, and we've all worked hard together to make things happen.
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A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.
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[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
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We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.
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I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.
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The further you get up the corporate ladder, the farther you get from the actual filmmaking process.
