I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other.
ALAN ARKINIncorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you’re going to be missing out on something.
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There’s a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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