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Film Screenwriter Inspirational Quotes (42)

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I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.
Peter Berg
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You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.
Peter Berg
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It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.
David Zucker
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We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.
David Zucker
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Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three jobs, at the same time. They're difficult and pretentious and they're tormented artists.
Peter Berg
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I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.
Peter Berg
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The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.
David Zucker
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I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early 70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
David Zucker
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Every movie has its own unique series of challenges.
Peter Berg
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There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.
David Zucker
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I like films that are about two hours not more.
Peter Berg
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I don't like alien films where you don't get to see the aliens.
Peter Berg
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Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.
David Zucker
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Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.
David Zucker
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The big fun in Battleship is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to...
Peter Berg
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I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.
David Zucker
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Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.
Peter Berg
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You're in the middle of making a movie and this part of the process is always very interesting. Because you think what you're making your movie is and then you start putting it out there, and then people tell you what your movie is.
Peter Berg
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