American - Director | July 29, 1974 -
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
Josh Radnor
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I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.
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It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.
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Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.
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One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.
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Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.
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Time off from the news is always something I welcome.
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An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.
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Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find myself checking e-mails and responding to texts throughout the day with some kind of Pavlovian ferocity - it's not a conscious act, but a reflexive one.
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I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.
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The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.
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To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.
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