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James Toback Quotes

You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: November 23, 1944

Topics

Believe You Done Will Never Should

Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.

Life Me Rest Grow Picture Look

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

Life Reading My Life Only Which

If you're going to tell stuff, you might as well tell the real stuff.

You Real Tell Going Well Stuff

Dancing in speakeasies was a job, and none of us knew for sure who were gangsters. No one told us, so how could we know? My mother used to come and take me home. We thought nothing of walking home together at two in the morning.

Mother Home Morning Together Job Me

Great stories and acting always win the day. If the story behind the scares is dramatic and the filmmaking is great, it works. If those things aren't great and the scares are secondary, it doesn't.

Great Day Win Story Acting Always

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

Home Fun Lunch Having Fun Doing You

I can put my legs behind my head, but that's pretty much it. An early agent said to me, 'If you can put your legs behind your head, let's say you're a contortionist!' So I got sent out for everything twisty and bendy. It's a good conversation starter.

Good Me You Conversation Early Said

One of the first exercises we did in acting class my freshman year was to stand in two rows, two lines facing each other as a class, and just make sounds and move in some completely nonsensical way out into the center of the room. Sort of make an idiot out of yourself, essentially, but to be okay with that.

Yourself Stand Idiot Year Acting

The only routine I have is that I finish everything I start. I wake up early every day - about 6.30 A.M. - but I do not work every day. I could laze for a day or two, but I wouldn't do it for three.

Work Day Start Wake Up Early Three

I'm not an emotional fighter.

Fighter Emotional

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?'

Evil Trying You Jump Done Now

I feel complete when I look at my phone and see thousands of likes and comments.

Feel Look Phone See Complete I Feel

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