John Carpenter Quotes

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

John Carpenter

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2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.

Matt Taibbi

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We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Jeanette Winterson

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A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It's part of the dog and pony show.

John Turturro

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The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and so the narratives we have the screenwriters usually for male leads. Women tend to be second string: the girlfriend of, the secretary who becomes.

Trudie Styler

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Having my son made me grow up. I'm keeping my dangers in the movies.

Tom Guiry

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There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.

Tom Hanks

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I'm an orator, a raconteur.

Ron Shock

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Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear!

Mila Kunis

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I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.

Michael Strahan

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The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Julia Margaret Cameron

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There's a rumour going 'round that if you amass a certain number of penalty points on your driving licence, the authorities will make you take your test again! Now, if ever there was an incentive to drive carefully, they could not have threatened a more terrifying ordeal.

Jasper Carrott

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The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.

Conrad Hall

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