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Quotes by Producer
"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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"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."
39
"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
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"Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost."
39
"They're free because they don't know any, better. So they can just run around and do whatever, and do whatever, and most of the time they don't get caught."
Time,
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"Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it."
39
"There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said."
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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."
39
"The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know."
39
"Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours."
38
"I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins."
38
"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."
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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."
38
"A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed."
38
"Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words."
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"We just happened to come along at time where there hadn't been a new young adult drama that also could appeal to adults as well in quite some time. We sort of found a little bit of a niche."
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"I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time."
38
"One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much."
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"I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude."
38
"Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book."
Time,
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"You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear."
38
"That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller."
38
"People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives."
38
"They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV."
37
"We are seeing lots of young people with melanoma. It's actually scared me quite a bit."
37
"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."
37
"I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba."
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"You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure."
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"My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles."
37
"The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious."
37
"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."
37
"Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there."
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"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."
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