J. M. Roberts Quotes
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.
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What I do think is really interesting is that, as I get older and more mature, I'm really attuned to how frightening this world is that we live in.
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My focus is to push the medium to be what it truly can be. Something well beyond 360-video, which is where a lot of the initial money has gone…but, of course, it’s not real VR if you don’t have agency. So what I’ve been looking for for 25 years is that undiscovered country between gameplay and linear narrative and the emotional engagement of a cinematic narrative. And that takes a huge combination of interesting technological enablements, as well as an understanding of how to bring a multidisciplinary team on a process that is upside-down the traditional process.
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The fact that millennials are fast at communication and expect transparency and don't feel comfortable with hierarchy gets interpreted as us being impatient or entitled. These traits are perfectly normal given that we're the first digital natives.
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Obviously, it makes it a lot more interesting.
