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Explore more quotes by Tim Roth

"You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin."

"There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones."

"I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor - a real person."

"I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance."
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"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."

"Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts."

"I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing."

"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."

"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."

"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."

"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."

"Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas."

"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working."
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