"So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses."

-- Danny Elfman

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“We can make up for lost money, but we can't make up for lost time.”
“I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.”

Source : Pamela Anderson (2004). “Star: A Novel”, p.266, Simon and Schuster
“He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.”
“When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.”
“When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.”
“I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.”
“I think that it is true that Eleanor Roosevelt, by being so active on that front, contributed to that impression very substantially. And it's to her credit that she was interested in this, let me say. But once again, I'm not sure the extent to which Roosevelt - I guess he did use her really, particularly on the civil rights front. No question about it, because she was well identified out there, and brought a good many blacks into the Administration, into the White House, into his presence and so on.”
“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”

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

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