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I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
Harold Prince
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I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.
Brittany Snow
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There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.


Isabella Rossellini
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Sometimes you make a connection with a writer or a piece of material, and there's not much to ask.


Peter Riegert
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Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.
Wes Craven
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
Laura Mvula
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I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.
Sutton Foster
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Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.


Roland Emmerich
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I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better.
Jason Blum
The best adaptations are the ones that really excavate the material. The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing and put it into a story.
Scott Rudin
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I've had people ask me to come and work for them. I went to Vienna and did three scenes in a movie for a guy that I met at a retrospective of Cassavetes films. It's a great way to travel, to meet people, to see different countries and cultures.
Seymour Cassel
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So many people ask me, 'Do you like 'Departed?' I say, '50/50.'


Andrew Lau
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We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
Barry Schuler
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People ask me where I go to get away, and I say 'Home.'


Gretchen Wilson
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Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.
Richard Simmons
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The villain in superhero movies is often, I think, what makes the movie.


Toby Emmerich
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.
Sylvia Plath
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People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.


Elvis Presley
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Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
Ben Stein
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What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
Jane Goodall
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