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Quotes by Producer
"I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins."
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"How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage."
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"You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to."
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"I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect."
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"And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way."
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"What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better."
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"My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles."
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"I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat."
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"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."
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"Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight."
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"It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time."
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"Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words."
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"To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently."
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"There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do."
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"I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years."
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"Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries."
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"People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh."
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"When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain."
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"But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act."
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"Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India."
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"Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry."
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"It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband."
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"You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure."
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"The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context."
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"It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. "The West Wing" isn't meant to be good for you."
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"Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business."
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