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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I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.
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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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'I am the King.' Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones - scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago - was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects.
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In terms of pure acting, my role model has always been Philip Seymour Hoffman; I really always loved what he did. I love what Mark Ruffalo does. When I was younger, I liked Cate Blanchett a lot. These are all actors who are given stories and allowed to carry the whole story.
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That's why he had a higher ball drop.
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When I was growing up, I just wanted to be somewhere else. I didn't like living in Knockemstiff, and I figured when I got older, I'd move off to some big city.
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Consenting to suffer does not annul the suffering.
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Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, 'What's your background?' and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor. Howard Jacobson's 'The Finkler Question' forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background.
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I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me into that position at some point, too.
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I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.
