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I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.


Albert Brooks

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MARILYNNE ROBINSON Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always ca...
HORTON FOOTE I'm more old school: I want to be like Keith Richards on stage. It's not interesting to see ...
LYKKE LI Brooks never impressed me because you were accustomed to him making the plays. This kid reminds me a...
FRANK ROBINSON They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independen...
DIANA ROSS I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
IAN HART At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of...
CHARLIZE THERON The two Hindi movies that I did were not marketed well, and so not many people came to watch the fil...
TENA DESAE Never felt lyk im alone bcoz my soul always follows me dats wat make me feel im not alone & I"ll nev...
RAKSHAN BHANDARY My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.
RACHEL HARTMAN It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! ...
WARWICK DAVIS My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characte...
JOHN SCALZI For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifestin...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN I have my own things on my mind and that's enough for me,
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SHILPA SHETTY I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and d...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS Interesting does not even begin to cover what happened today.” I said.
“My fiance shot me ...
J.J. MCAVOY I weed out the obvious ones that no one will convince me to show. My first rule is that it has to be...
CHRIS ROBINSON Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily....
XAVIER DOLAN My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age....
FAY WRAY Im on a roller coaster that only goes up my friend.
JOHN GREEN I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks and me. Can't you see that we wear different num...
FRANK ROBINSON I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
DAMIAN LEWIS im the one who has to die when its time for me to die. so let me live my life the way i want to
LIL WAYNE Don King is my promoter, and I want to fight for him. I want to fight in the big fights, and hopeful...
MARK DE MORI It's a challenge for new film directors to know when it's enough to ask people for their opinions an...
MARTIN DANSKY My own guide is always what I find interesting. If it's something that makes me think: 'I'd like to ...
SEAN CONNERY You’re in my every breath and every thought, intertwined so deep inside me that love’s not a str...
NALINI SINGH When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier...
RAKUL PREET SINGH Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal, ... Even ...
BILL MURRAY They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
ANDY SLYKE They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
ANDY VAN SLYKE every body thinks im this cheerful littel person with a wonderful smile but the truth is i hide behi...
AMBER FAITH HUN My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me 'A Clockwork Orang...
JONATHAN KRISEL But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of ...
JIM COLEMAN IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are li...
JACK DORSEY I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row.
ERICA DURANCE My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, wa...
DREE HEMINGWAY I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
KATE DEL CASTILLO I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.
DWIGHT GOODEN I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love...
GAEL GARCIA BERNAL My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head ...
AARON DOUGLAS I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to ...
RACHEL SKARSTEN I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people ...
JEFF BUCKLEY This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
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SUZAN TISDALE I was offered 'Pretty Woman.' I was offered 'Big' and 'Dead Poets Society.' ...
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PAUL MCCARTNEY Im not a politician and my other habits are good. Ive no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. Bu...
ARTEMUS WARD It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.
ETHAN COEN I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.
WOODY ALLEN Film is a mirror. I want to see more filmmakers. We all want to see ourselves.
AVA DUVERNAY So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to s...
AJAY DEVGAN A lot of people who are not familiar with film festivals need to see stars in their movie to make th...
CHRIS LAMONT I do not want my film being broadcast on the network unless it is willing to let its own workers bac...
MICHAEL MOORE I got enough to worry about with my own team.
TODD BERTUZZI dont read my diary when im gone, ok im going to work now , when you wake up please read my diary, lo...
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CHRIS CHAMBLISS Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me...
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LEO FLETES I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, ...
MICHELLE BRANCH My film is a journey into the face of, into the heart of, hate, ... I want to show the film on the W...
MARC LEVIN I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of abi...
CONFUCIUS The last drive, to me, I can see it better on film than I can see it as a memory. My memory is a blu...
JUSTIN HOLLAND I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaki...
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ALEX GARLAND For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very differen...
AERIEL MIRANDA I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating som...
DOUGLAS ADAMS They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independen...
DIANA ROSS There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any f...
TARSEM SINGH It was a brief conversation. I told (Brooks) that I didn't want to hear anything.
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D. A. PENNEBAKER not about my popularity. People have been supporting me since my childhood. They are supporting me b...
GEORGE WEAH I'm not afraid of a big studio film; I trust my instincts. But for me, it's not really about...
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SIRI HUSTVEDT There are a lot of films that explore sci-fi, ... What attracted me to the script is the fact that t...
VIN DIESEL I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not ...
LEONARD SLATKIN I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race...
EDWARD BROOKE To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid suc...
ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer ...
PAULO COELHO I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own li...
ELLIOT COWAN That position is not so interesting - because, for me, this business is about your own team winning....
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BROOKS ATKINSON Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and pr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
GARTH BROOKS The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all respons...
BROOKS ATKINSON Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your a...
MEL BROOKS Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
BELLAMY BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
PHILLIPS BROOKS We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be ...
PAUL BROOKS Each body has its art...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra...
PHILLIPS BROOKS If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst...
RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h...
PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce...
MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ...
TERRY BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me...
MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...
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