People Quotes
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That's what happens when you're making a movie, you find yourself really loving all these people sitting across from you.
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The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. Realistically, 50 to 80 percent of all traffic is people downloading stuff for free. If you can turn that huge market share into something that you can monetize, even if it is just with ads, you will end up making more money than with all other revenue streams combined.
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I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very important to me that people liked me. Over the years, observing other showrunners who made work that I so admired, I realized that that had to go. This couldn't be my first priority. My first priority had to be the work.
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I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.
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It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.
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For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.
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There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.
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The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.
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More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.
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Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?
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Information technology is a formidable enabler of freedoms. For example, it lowers barriers to freedom of expression and allows people to get a better grasp of their lives. It should not be used to reduce the freedom of people.
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I'm American and I wanted my friend and people to see ' Red Army' . I didn't want it to be a film for Russia, although I did show it there and they absolutely loved it.
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For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.
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The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.
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If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.
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Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!
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About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.
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I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.
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I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
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When you have people catering to you non-stop, you lose it. You need someone to kick you in the butt every now and then!
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You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.
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I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.
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I run the Actor's Studio on the West Coast, and one of the things I say all the time to the people I teach - many of whom are acting teachers - is that an actor needs to make choices that make him present.
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I figured if I could get really good people who were going to be able to have a big impact in the world over the next decade to come together once a year for ten years and actually sign a pledge to take action themselves, if we did that every year for ten years we could do a lot of good in the world. That's the difference between my meeting and any other. If you don't want to promise to do something, don't come to my meeting, stay home.
