Marco Beltrami Quotes
I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
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Canada is a big part of my life.
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I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.
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North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
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I'm retired from the daredevil business.
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I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for them about who they are and what's going on in their world. When I had 90 people in 'Porgy and Bess,' each had a story, history and family relationship.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
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We like to be the people who go - can go out into the world and say we're the people seeking places that need bridges built and need the kind of energy that we bring, and then actively doing the show. We will pay for it ourselves. We just want to bring the kind of enjoyment that we know we can bring.
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I have many times resigned myself to never finding a true way out. But a new hope always emerges telling me that it is not yet too late for all of us to take stock and make a decision. I was brought up to believe in free will.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Self-righteousness loves to pounce on an evil which by sheer accident is not its particular evil.
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The best teacher is the one who himself has had to struggle to learn.
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All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.
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When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
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The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.
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The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
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I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.
