Quotes by Robert B. Weide - Page 1

I like to make films about my heroes.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Heroes
Films
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In the States I got asked to do every TV show.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Tv Show
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I'm always looking to move on to the next thing.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Move On
Next Thing
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I think directors who care about their work should be invested.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Invested
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Writing, to me, conjures up a physical act, like running or eating.
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Eating
Physical
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Ask any lawyer - if a prosecutor thinks he can win a case, he'll prosecute it.
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Prosecutor
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How do you tell a story that you're a part of without it being a big ego trip?
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Trip
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In the States anything dealing with religion, people go nuts, because they are nuts.
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Nuts
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I consider myself allergic to gossip and tabloids, and go out of my way to avoid them.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Allergic
Gossip
Tabloids
Avoid
Consider
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I have some kind of knack for getting to know or becoming very close with people I've long admired.
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Becoming
Long People Know
Admired
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If you listen to Howard Stern, go back and listen to Lenny Bruce, so you can hear what real talent is.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Bruce
Stern
Howard Stern
Lenny
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Kurt Vonnegut and I - it's not an exaggeration to say we were best friends. And I grew up just idolizing him.
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Exaggeration
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I feel like a lot of the guys who are trying to do political or socially relevant humor just haven't figured out who the enemy is.
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Figured
Socially
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again - one can believe in Woody Allen's innocence without presuming Dylan Farrow to be a liar.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Dylan
Innocence
Presuming
Woody
Allen
Liar
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It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing room.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Editing
Writing Process
Editing Room
Traditional Sense
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When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Cameras
Directors
Should Have
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The catch in the industry is that if you want to get a picture made for little money, you have to get a big star. But the two are usually mutually exclusive.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Exclusive
Little Money
Big Star
Catch
Mutually
Mutually Exclusive
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People in the States live for finding something they can lose their minds over. They have nothing else going on. They watch a show and there's a joke and everybody's up in arms.
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Arms
Lose People Nothing
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My paid gigs allow me to pay for my documentaries, like a drug habit, I suppose. If I'm lucky enough to be working steady, however, it leaves little time for the documentary hobby.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Documentaries
Gigs
Habit
Little Time
Steady
Time Enough Me
Time Me Habit
Time Me Enough
Leaves
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I think people take their behavioural tips from everyone else. So, if the director is calm and the lead actors are calm, no one wants to be the sore thumb. And I've remained friendly with everyone.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Friendly
People
Thinking
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In any movie, there are a number of scenes that get cut in an effort to keep the film from running too long. Some are of little consequence, but others are important scenes that are very painful to lose.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Movie
Running
Consequence
Effort
Film
Painful
Cut
Number
Lose
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I am a little wary of entering another situation where I would just be another director for hire and I've been doing this in one form or another since I was twenty-two doing documentaries for PBS and HBO.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Documentaries
Hbo
Pbs
Twenty Two
Hire
Wary
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A few months ago, a friend emailed to simply ask, 'Do you get a piece of this?' The message included a link to a site selling T-shirts emblazoned with 'Directed by Robert B. Weide.' My wife soon ordered two.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Selling
Site
Directed
Emailed
Included
Link
Robert
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I don't know that Michael J Fox had done anything prior to that 'Curb' episode where he got to comically play up the whole subject of his Parkinson's. There must have been something very liberating in doing that.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Curb
Liberating
Parkinson
Episode
Fox
Prior
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It took me little more than two years to complete my film, 'Woody Allen: A Documentary.' I conducted hours of filmed interviews with Woody, who put forward no ground rules about questions I could ask, or topics to avoid.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Topics
Woody
Allen
Documentary
Woody Allen
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When I came to England I was quite surprised to see that you people have it too. But why people are so interested in other people's private lives is beyond me. It's like group hypnosis, or something - a giant distraction.
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Groups
Hypnosis
People
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The documentaries are one thing - I was highlighting someone else's work, someone else's genius. Once I had to find my own voice, I'm glad I was a little bit older and had some confidence and had all these great inspirations to draw from.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Confidence
Documentaries
Glad
Highlighting
Little Bit
Voice
Work Great Voice
Draw
Older
Inspirations
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Somehow I got a hold of an address for Vonnegut shortly after making the Marx Brothers film. Vonnegut wrote back, saying that he had seen the Marx brothers film and loved it. That became the foundation of our friendship: old movies and comedies.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Friendship
Marx
Old Movies
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I hate to sound like someone twice my age talking about these comics today and all that, but it's as though their intent or goal on stage seems to be to see how uncomfortable they can make the audience, or how viciously they can savage their subjects.
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Subjects
Uncomfortable
Intent
Savage
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Everybody always asks me what the big surprises were that I discovered about Woody and I never have a good stock answer for that, I never know quite what to tell them other than generally that he's much less neurotic and quirky than I would have expected.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Quirky
Answers
Surprise
Woody
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Sit down at your computer or open your nearest mobile device and Google these words: 'Directed by.' What's the first predictive text that comes up? Martin Scorsese? Quentin Tarantino? Ingmar Bergman? Chances are the first name Google suggested was Robert B. Weide. That's me. Sort of.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Bergman
Scorsese
Tarantino
Your Me Words
Chances
Device
Directed
First Name
Martin Scorsese
Nearest
Predictive
Quentin Tarantino
Robert
Suggested
Text
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One weekend, I was driving and in the car next to me on the freeway was a guy who looked like a very conservative Nick Frost, with a short haircut, these horn-rimmed glasses, and he was wearing a jacket and tie. I thought, Oh, there's Nick if he were an accountant in the '50s or '60s.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Car
Conservative
Frost
Glasses
Guy
Next
Accountant
Oh
Short
Freeway
Wearing
Haircut
Jacket
Looked
Nick
Tie
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For me, it was never a choice not to play the game because I was never attracted to it in the first place. I have plenty of friends who get stalked by the paparazzi, but it's not anything you'd aspire to. Fame is like Frankenstein's monster - once you've created it, it can get out of control.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Choices
Games
Play
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If you're watching comedy movies, go back and check out the Marx Brothers in 'Duck Soup,' or Buster Keaton in 'The General,' or Laurel and Hardy or W.C. Fields or whatever - and see what pure talent really was, so that you can see where it came from, and then you can sort of gauge it from there.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Hardy
Soup
Buster
Check
Duck
Gauge
Laurel
Marx
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I've done documentaries and TV for six years but this was my first feature as director, so there were moments when I'd look around and was excited... but, of course, it was also very challenging on a day-to-day basis. And, of course, now that it's coming out people want to talk mostly to the actors.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Challenges
People
Years
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On 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' I remember that sometime in Season 3, there was a Yiddish phrase, 'Kinahura,' and a friend of mine who was Jewish said that the closed captioning said 'Can of Hurrah.' And I thought 'Oh, God.' I never had bothered to see the transcripts but from that point on all the transcripts had to come to me and I checked them.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Bothered
Curb
Enthusiasm
Yiddish
Jewish
God Your Me
God Me Remember
Checked
Friend
Closed
Mine
Oh God
Phrase
Sometime
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There are different levels of fame. There are the polite fans who quietly and respectfully approach you and ask for an autograph - and that's acceptable. But the next level... when you think you're having a moment of privacy and there's someone with a long lens catching you when you're about to eat, or sunbathe, or worse... it's just so intrusive and I think it's part of the sickness of our culture.
Robert B. Weide / Screenwriter
Fans
Long
Thinking
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