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David R. Ellis

"So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever."

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"So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever."

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A.E. Samaan

"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."

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A.E. Samaan

"The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence."

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A.E. Samaan

"Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car."

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A.E. Samaan

"I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys."

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A.E. Samaan

"Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment."

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A.E. Samaan

"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

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A.E. Samaan

"Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65."

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A.E. Samaan

"I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'"

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A.E. Samaan

"Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president."

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A.E. Samaan

"In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality."

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David R. Ellis
"We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects."

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David R. Ellis
"It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it."

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David R. Ellis
"They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase."

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David R. Ellis
"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."

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David R. Ellis
"Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero."

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David R. Ellis
"Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day."

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David R. Ellis
"Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common."

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David R. Ellis
"Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children."

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David R. Ellis
"I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right."

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David R. Ellis
"Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that."

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