Quotes by Peter Landesman - Page 2

Even the two novels I've written were based on true stories. It's how I'm wired - real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind of journalism I did unpeeled lids from cans otherwise sealed.
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Fascinating
Journalism
Real Life
Cans
Sealed
Wired
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14th- and 15th-century drawings are almost unheard-of - and as a result, they generate jealous desire among dealers and curators. Museums in particular value rarity and pedigree more than attractiveness.
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Jealous
Attractiveness
Museums
Pedigree
Rarity
Dealers
Drawings
Generate
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Refugees tend to avoid planes, airports and fake passports, even though flying may appear to be the most obvious way to flee. For one thing, security procedures at airports are far stricter than at land borders.
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Borders
Fake
Flying
Obvious
Planes
Procedures
Airport
Appear
Flee
Refugees
Stricter
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Hard information on the quantity of bogus art sold is difficult to come by, in part because fraud, when discovered by dealers and auction houses, is usually kept secret to boost public confidence in the art market.
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Confidence
Boost
Fraud
Information
Quantity
Secret
Auction
Dealers
Discovered
Houses
Market
Sold
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We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes.
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Fictions
Insulated
Network
Operate
Wag
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There was absolutely zero discourse between me or anybody at the studio with the NFL. None. The only exchange was one-sentence e-mails trying to arrange a meeting, before deciding to cancel the meeting. Period. End of story.
Peter Landesman /
Zero
Discourse
Nfl
Absolutely
Arrange
Cancel
Exchange
Deciding
Period
Meeting
None
Studio
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I love writing in compressed time periods because the act of survival in the midst of panic and fear, that's where true heroism comes. If you have a uniform, and you're expected to do things, it's a sort of incremental heroism.
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Expected
Heroism
Midst
Panic
Periods
Survival
Writing
Love Time Fear
Act
True
Incremental
Uniform
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What interested me was the story of Bennet Omalu. You hear his narrative: Immigrant from Nigeria, landing in Pittsburgh, only to learn and tell the truth about this most American - and sacrosanct - cultural institution: the NFL.
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Landing
Narrative
Nfl
Nigeria
Pittsburgh
Cultural
Immigrant
Institution
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What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon.
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Colleagues
Population
Revealing
Toes
Turf
Reporter
Indeed
Tread
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The trains that travel the Chunnel are massive machines. The Eurostars are bullet-shaped and a quarter-mile long. They are pulled by a 136,000-pound locomotive and move in the open air at 185 m.p.h. and through the tunnel at 100 m.p.h.
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Machines
Massive
Locomotive
Trains
Pulled
Tunnel
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When it came to 'Concussion,' I found myself with so many threads to weave. So integral to the whistle-blower's tale were spirituality, the cost of hero-worshipping, what it means to be an American, and just how dangerous the truth can be.
Peter Landesman /
Spirituality
Integral
Tale
Threads
Weave
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Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time.
Peter Landesman /
Dollars
Engraved
Human History
Literal
Reflection
Silver
Carved
Identified
Melted
Ounce
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Each year, tens of millions of museumgoers walk through the entrance of the Getty, or the Metropolitan or the Prado or the Hermitage, and never consider the possibility of having to arbitrate for themselves the authenticity of what they have come to see.
Peter Landesman /
Authenticity
Metropolitan
Possibility
Each Year
Entrance
Tens
Tens Of Millions
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The story of Bennet Omalu is a riveting story; it's just a riveting tale. I knew from the beginning if I stayed close to that kind of storytelling and focussed on the character, then the other stuff comes along with it, and the message becomes baked into the journey.
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Baked
Stayed
Tale
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I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.
Peter Landesman /
Confluence
Continuum
Journalist
Painter
Led
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.
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Dollars
Million Dollars
Big Difference
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'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.
Peter Landesman /
Voice Over
Wrong Way
Describe
Edit
Make Up
New Ones
Rehearse
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I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed a helicopter pilot who had been ferrying weapons into Liberia, I realized as I left the restaurant that I was being followed and set up for an ambush.
Peter Landesman /
Arms
East
Eastern Europe
Middle
Middle East
Trafficking
Weapons
Article
Followed
Helicopter
Investigative
Pilot
Realized
Restaurant
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Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status.
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Abstraction
Fraud
Identity
Modern Art
Painter
Understood
Grasp
Intrinsic
Status
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