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Jeremy Thomas Quotes

My advice to American filmmakers is to marry a European. I'm not kidding. Otherwise they don't qualify for international co-production treaties.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: british
Birth: July 26, 1949

Topics

Advice American Marry Treaties

Ever since I started playing records, it's been such a fabulous life. The idea of going back down the pits would be a nightmare.

Life Back Down Fabulous Going Been

When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

Writing Story Think Enough Down Try

You can look at my books and not find particular joy on every page because, of course, what you want to write about is the difficulty of the human experience. You don't want to lie about things to make happy endings and weddings if they don't deserve to happen. But I would be lying if I didn't try to communicate some of the pleasure of being alive.

Andrew Sean Greer

Experience Lie Joy Happy You Look

I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.

John Cassavetes

Day World Think Better Pictures Own

Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.

Michael Fassbender

Questions Place Want Leaving Asking

I'll always identify as a Chicagoan; if it wasn't so cold, I'd be there forever.

Cold Always Forever Identify

When I'm back home, I try to do as little as possible because I want to take time with my family. That's the most important thing.

Family Home Time Back Want Possible

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

Book Hell Want Write Out Ingenuity

Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

People Team Australia Come Join

Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write about something or somebody you know about - something that you feel deeply and passionately about. Never try and force it.

Michael Morpurgo

Love Think Feel You Know Never

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

Stars Day Travel New York Space

Preparation is a mentality... With wrestling being my background, I've always learned to overwork, overwork. Work, work, work, work. It's not always the talented that wins, but it's the one who puts in the most preparation and thought into things.

Work Preparation Thought Wrestling

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