Michael De Luca Quotes

#1. My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.

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#2. Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.

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#3. Nothing is more exciting than being around new talent when it emerges.

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#4. I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.

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#5. Every town has an Elm Street.

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#6. I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

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#7. The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book?

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#8. I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously.

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#9. 'Chronicle' could have been a video-game movie. The original 'RoboCop' and the remake could have come from video games.

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#10. I learned in a very public setting what works and doesn't work for a healthy lifestyle.

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#11. I love being on set.

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#12. Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

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#13. I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

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#14. I started to get grossed out by the armpits.

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#15. Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene ... For me, it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

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#16. I remember going to see those Adrian Lyne films when I was going to see movies in the nineties, and I was jealous he wasn't working at New Line.

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#17. I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.

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#18. 'Social Network' is a good story with human experience connective tissue that makes it ageless.

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#19. I don't sweat the Internet. You know, it's still something I enjoy as a movie geek myself to get on and, like, look at all the websites; however, when it comes to marketing a movie, the Internet is still not the thing that gets people to the theatre.

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