Marc Platt Quotes
As a producer, it's your job to bang on the table and convince studio heads why great movies should be made.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.
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If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.
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Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.
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As a producer, it's your job to bang on the table and convince studio heads why great movies should be made.
