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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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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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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I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and between compassion and competitiveness. There's always something at the end you have to find to live a full life, but it's hard to find.
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If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.
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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.
