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John Badham

"There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes."

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"There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes."

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Amber Hurdle

"What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful."

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Amber Hurdle

"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."

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Amber Hurdle

"Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course."

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Amber Hurdle

"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think the killers get far too much attention."

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Amber Hurdle

"We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could."

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Amber Hurdle

"I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important."

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Amber Hurdle

"You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh."

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John Badham
"Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament."

Fishing

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John Badham
"The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably."

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John Badham
"There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes."

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John Badham
"I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was."

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John Badham
"Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling."

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John Badham
"When the movie was done, Number Five was crated up. Eric took him over to Germany; displayed him over there because Germans really liked this movie. It was very popular with them."

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John Badham
"In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!"

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John Badham
"In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk."

Power

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John Badham
"Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years."

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John Badham
"One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible."

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