"The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

Peter Bart

#Running Quotes #People Quotes #Half Quotes

“Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.”
“For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the lights go out and there is total blackness. And if some part of the non-entity we called George has indeed been absent at this moment of terminal shock, away out there on the deep water, then it will return to find itself homeless.”
“Give luck a chance to happen.”

Source : Tom Kite (1994). “How to Play Consistent Golf”
“There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.”

Source : "Astronaut Clark: 'Life is a magical thing'", www.cnn.com. February 4, 2003.
“In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.”
“What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'”
“When the correct technique feels wrong, different and confusing there is change and grow”
“I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.”

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