Toback James Quotes

#1. The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

James Toback

#2. To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.

James Toback

#3. Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

James Toback

#4. The collaborator has to be someone who understands that his role is to help you articulate what you want, but at the same time is not just going to be mechanically obeying, but adding to, supplementing, and coming up with stuff.

James Toback

#5. The past is history, the future's a mystery.

James Toback

#6. I think sometimes people would rather have a bad answer about things than no answer at all.

Cormac McCarthy

#7. I preserve my world
in journals so my children
can eat without me

Nikki Skies

#8. We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.

Patrick McHenry

#9. It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life ... you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

James Toback

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

James Toback

#11. Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely.

James Toback

#12. I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that
I've gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling
like I've been shafted.

James Toback

#13. My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension. Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. Use people whom you're excited by and who share your excitement ... The ideal collaboration is one in which the actor and director are saying to each other, 'I can't believe how lucky we are to be making a movie together.'

James Toback

#15. What am I hanging around for? But I'm hanging around because it's still fun.

James Toback

#16. Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

James Toback

#17. I know a star when I see one.

James Toback

#18. To paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow ... we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.

Robert Krulwich