"Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs."

-- Lynda Obst

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“If you've done your preparation and you know the team of people that you're working with, then it makes life an awful lot easier. I still get nervous all the time. I think the best thing to do is to take a deep breath, make it simple, know what you're talking about, don't try and be fancy, don't try and be clever and just enjoy the experience.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.”
“I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.”
“Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.”
“Like all silent men, I am an incessant talker. I talk so much in an endless monologue in my own mind, explaining meself to meself, explaining things (in me own mind) to your aunt, answering back customers (in me own mind) and talking to beautiful women about my soul (in me own mind) and addressing huge cheering crowds about my ideas on how the country should be run (in my imagination) that when it comes to loosening me mortal tongue in reel life, sure there's not an ounce of talk left in me.”
“One is a writer, or one is not.”
“Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.”
“Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.”

Source : Paul De Man (1979). “Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust”, p.5, Yale University Press

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