"Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful thing for a director to have experienced that. It helps you know how to talk to actors and how to get what you need from them."

-- Grant Heslov

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“Sometimes you have to crouch to conquer”
“I certainly want people to read what I've written. Yet, and here's that question of economic position, because I have a secure job, I don't need a wide readership to survive. I'm a participant in the indirect economy, what sociological critic Pierre Bourdieu would call the "economic world reversed." I get "paid" by writing whatever I choose. That's a pretty good position to be in, but I don't pretend for a moment that it is not a privileged one.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.”
“The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.”

Source : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”
“I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.”
“There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.”
“Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.”
“If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.”

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