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Quotes by Producer
"You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked."
16
"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."
16
"And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe."
16
"In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm."
16
"Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant."
16
"Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough."
Want,
16
"Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!"
16
"The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering."
16
"I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything."
16
"The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that."
16
"Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images."
16
"A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated."
16
"That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people."
16
"Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day."
16
"I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores."
16
"You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there."
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"I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes."
15
"Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain."
15
"Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success."
15
"The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be."
15
"Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production."
15
"Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many."
15
"Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed."
15
"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."
15
"There's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening."
15
"I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show."
15
"We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social."
15
"The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings."
15
"All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone."
15
"Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies."
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