Making Quotes
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I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.
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My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters most is human contact. The great mys- tery of music making requires real friendship among those who work together. Every member of the orchestra knows I am with him and her in my heart.
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I do feel like once you know you are someone who is in the world and there are other countries and cultures, that stays with you and your decision-making forever.
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It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that knowledge workers list assumptions for their conclusions and document all sources. These actions either directly interfere with forming insights or create an environment where insights and discoveries are treated with suspicion because they might lead to errors. They signal to knowledge workers that their job is not to make mistakes. Even if they don't make discoveries, no one can blame them as long as they don't make mistakes.
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I like being able to bounce between writing movies for people like Kevin Sorbo to making very personal films like orange county hardcore sinister to making a movie like Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail: The Tale of the Three Gates, which is made for the pure pleasure of getting together with creative people and making a movie. Alex Cox would be proud.
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For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
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Freedom... refers to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.
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when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
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Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art.
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And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.
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All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
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In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.
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I was always screwing around with music, but I really wanted to go to film school when I was in high school. I guess what happened was that I didn't get into Tisch, that's what happened. I got deferred. And I went to Hampsire and ended up making music like everybody else there.
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I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.
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Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
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Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.
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There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.
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You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference how tall the actors are, because I needed to know that if Olivia Wilde sits in a car that the director, Joe Kosinski can still get the angle he wants, as opposed to maybe in another vehicle than Jeff Bridges has to sit in. So that was fascinating. Because in a real car you change everything and adjust it. But here you have one shot.
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You've got all these people making action movies, and they've never been in a life-or-death situation.
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Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.
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If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.
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Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
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There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.
