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Quotes by Producer
"Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed."
12
"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
12
"Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really."
12
"You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe."
12
"At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings."
News,
12
"Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt."
12
"And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it."
12
"It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well."
12
"When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile."
12
"With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western."
12
"What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination."
12
"Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost."
12
"Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes."
12
"Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera."
12
"We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set."
12
"Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way."
Work,
12
"If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble."
12
"I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor."
12
"The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks."
12
"I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory."
12
"When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well."
12
"Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more."
12
"I'm not going to say that every record I've put out was the greatest record in history, but I'd stand by even the bad ones. Don't make excuses, make hits."
12
"I want every character be an outsider in some way."
12
"Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think."
12
"I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before."
12
"I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews."
Wife,
12
"I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment."
12
"We need a very strong military to protect the freedoms we do have."
12
"That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg."
12
"He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant."
11
"The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge."
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