Ramin Quotes

#1. We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I don't think they should have a helmet on. They should break their leg and have an imagination. Otherwise, we're going to have a nation of accountants.

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#2. Bilateral illusion of unilateral attention

David Foster Wallace

#3. The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school diploma, don't even speak English, and offer them a home at zero percent down, that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense.

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#4. So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

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#5. Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings.

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#6. As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:
"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it."
"What's that?" Anna asked.
"Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time.

John Green

#7. Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings.

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#8. You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul.

Arnold Bennett

#9. Don't forget that you are the product of a culture that went stark raving mad about ten thousand years ago. Adjust your thinking accordingly.

Chuck Lorre

#10. I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

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#11. The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that.

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#12. We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.

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#13. I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

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#14. Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal.

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#15. You have to let life come and go.

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#16. To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.

Ken Follett

#17. James Horner, James Newton Howard, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, or Ramin Djawadi would all be a dream come true for a 'Throne of Glass' soundtrack.

Sarah J. Maas

#18. The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

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