"All you can do is make a piece of product, sell it on its own terms, stand behind it and hope that people will go see it. If you try to be like something else or appeal to any given group, then you can very easily end up being gratuitous and imitative. There's not much to be gained by that and I think too much time is spent going around trying to be like someone else."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Roddy McDowall

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive, and beautiful. There's no way to control how it will be used, how it will be read, and that's part of the excitement of it.”
“You may be a lady but you are still the man!”
“I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living.”
“I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.”

Source : Interview With Martin Scorsese, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.
“I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.”
“I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.”
“I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish -- well, I take that back -- there are a couple I could have done without,”
“Giving information that will help everybody live better. That's a teacher's dream-to accumulate information and disperse it in a form that allows people to choose the way they're going to use it. That's what I think I do best.”

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