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2506 Film producer Quotes

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

Make Great Element Well
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If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

Remembered Really Like Children
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It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

Disappointing Legs Strong Idea
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My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

Goal Life Figure Money
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I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.
More Vivid Imagination Talent
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I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.

Never Sloppy People Money
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We do things for good reasons that are bad.

Things Good Reasons Bad
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Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.
Filmmakers Afford Work
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I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Dependent Business Living Movies
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It takes no imagination to live within your means.
Takes Imagination Means
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I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

Used You Love Local
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As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

Make Money Business Subsidize
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I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Wanted Write Direct Movies
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Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Listen Rule Learned Business
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A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

Number Images Certain Beyond
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I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

Successful Young Enthusiastic Worked
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I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Artist Value What Doing
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I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.
I Had Teachers Hated
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I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

Been Kid Moved Friends
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I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.

Teachers Really Singled Discouragement
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I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

Kind Kid Talent Ability
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The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

World Professional Unpleasant Wishing
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The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

Stuff Trouble Casting Godfather
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You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

Ought Love Want Especially
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Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.
Films Hotel Example Big-vision
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I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.

Job Course Godfather Made
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Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

Usually Stuff Best Idea
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If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

Person Say Yes Hotel
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I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.

Work Morning Place Alone
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My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it.

People Idea Have One
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I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
Black sheep Family Dumb Low IQ
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I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

Ambitious Think Fall Under-ambitious
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A person focused on achieving his/her goals will find life more fulfilling. Keep glowing.

Focused Goals Life Fulfilling
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When you watch my movies and smile, that’s a form of therapy because you’re relaxed watching me. I also teach through my movies, highlighting the difference between right and wrong.

Movies Smile Therapy Right
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I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Get Hope Never Old
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

Awaiting Flesh I Write Images
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Art Conscience Dark Deep
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

Being Difference Everything More
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I always work with 18 friends.

Always Friends Work Friendship
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For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
Cinema Face Human Human Face
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I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
Anywhere Go Hate Travel
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I am very shy with people I don't know.

Am I Am Know People
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.

Am Autobiographical Dream Emotions
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The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

Advantage Appear Create Demons
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
About Day Death Gone
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I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.

Effort Families Never Ounce
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

About Achieving Bad Caused
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Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.

Actually Directed Doer Great
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The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.

Appalling Become Body Burden
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

Awful Become Cry Films
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