Larry Cohen Quotes

United States, Film Director
July 15, 1941 – March, 23, 2019.

Lawrence G. "Larry" Cohen is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known as a B-Movie auteur of horror and science fiction films – often containing a police procedural element – during the 1970s and 1980s. He has since concentrated mainly on screenwriting including the Joel Schumacher thriller Phone Booth (2002), Cellular (2004) and Captivity (2007). In 2006 Cohen returned to the directing chair for Mick Garris' Masters of Horror TV series (2006); he directed the episode "Pick Me Up".

Also known as Film Producer, Screenwriter

There is rapid innovation. It is absolutely a market that is dynamic. It is driving companies, including Microsoft, to do better and better work.

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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.

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I've felt there's no communication or not enough communication between the public and the school board. It would be my goal to help to facilitate some communication.

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Is there anybody here who can negotiate a movie deal? ... This kid walked up to me and said, 'I can do it for you. I'm Skip Brittenham.'

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- Movie
- Deal
- Negotiate
All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

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- People
- Time
- Trying
The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'

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- Important
- Movie
- Theatre
Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?

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- You
- Eating
Not too many years back, 12 by 14 was considered the master bedroom,

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Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.

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- Character
- Movies
It would be incorrect to say that these changes alone address those issues.

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- Changes
- Issues
- Address
HARD LESSONS. We wanted to bring groups together on common areas.

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- Common
- Groups
- Areas
By working together, we can build a strong, unified passenger service group and protect and improve conditions for employees that both unions represent at US Airways.

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