Craig Hatkoff Quotes
In December of 2001, after September 11th, my wife, Jane Rosenthal, and Robert DeNiro asked me if I would help them create the Tribeca Film Festival. The idea was to revitalize lower Manhattan. We would show films on piers, in high schools. It was all about the community. We wanted it to be accessible to everybody.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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When I have sex with my husband, I fantasize I am with a petite, hot young woman.
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Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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We're making high-budget movies with a low-budget attitude.
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To succeed in the tech industry, you start businesses, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech community, you do and build awesome things, are generous with your time and efforts, and make a point of making space for strangers - without any expectation of payback.
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In December of 2001, after September 11th, my wife, Jane Rosenthal, and Robert DeNiro asked me if I would help them create the Tribeca Film Festival. The idea was to revitalize lower Manhattan. We would show films on piers, in high schools. It was all about the community. We wanted it to be accessible to everybody.
