Carlo Ponti Quotes
People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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It took me a while to understand that I do have a voice, and I can use it to help people.
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When I got to MIT, I discovered a really interesting Master's program called the Science and Technology and Policy Program - it taught people with a background in STEM how to think about science and tech from a policy perspective. It was a great way to understand how to communicate science to a policymaker or a layperson.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
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People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
