Adam Shankman Quotes
A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a lawyer. So believe me, I analyze and negotiate. That is a huge amount of the director's work, especially when you're working with people who - such a variety.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
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What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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I have a great desire to serve humanity without ever actually getting off my chair.
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But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
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A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a lawyer. So believe me, I analyze and negotiate. That is a huge amount of the director's work, especially when you're working with people who - such a variety.
