Quotes by Theodore Melfi - Page 1

Life is laughter.
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Life
Laughter
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I think math is exciting, you know.
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Math
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Change is incremental. Change is small.
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Incremental
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We're very, very flawed, myself included.
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Flawed
Included
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As a director, you're open to any kind of criticism.
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Criticism
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Floyd Thompson, a white man, desegregated NASA. Period.
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Nasa
Floyd
Thompson
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A Sunday matinee is a good time for families to go to a movie.
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Sunday
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I have to shoot and work out and play and discover all the time.
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Work Out
Discover
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I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.
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College
Okay
Student
Good Student
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You know what the truth is? You don't find Bill Murray. Bill Murray finds you.
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Bill Murray
Finds
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I have a very strict philosophy that if you're not working out, you're getting fat.
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Strict
Fat
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You have a responsibility to make inclusion a daily thought, so we can get rid of the word 'inclusion.'
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Inclusion
Responsibility
Daily
Word
Rid
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To me, there are saints every day. They stand up and help others and live for others and do things for others.
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Me Day Every Day
Help Others
Saints
Stand Up
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NASA didn't give a crap what gender you were or what race you were. If you could do the math, you were valuable.
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Math
Nasa
Valuable
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I try not to write for actors because A, they're not the character, and B, it's really depressing when you don't get them.
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Depressing
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One thing that's nice about doing a movie about people that hardly anyone knows, you never worry if they're a perfect match.
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Hardly
Match
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I think if characters change too much, it's unrealistic; their whole fabric of who they are as a person doesn't just disappear.
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Disappear
Fabric
Unrealistic
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I think the commercial world is a lateral step from features. Some people see it as a step down, but I've never understood that.
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Features
World Step People
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Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.
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Bond
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The fact is this: NASA was desegregated by a white male. NASA was not desegregated by a black male. NASA was not desegregated by white women.
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Nasa
Male
Women Black White
White Women
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The concept of 'family' has changed so much. It's not just 'mom and dad' anymore. It's 'mom and mom' and 'dad and dad,' and it's kind of beautiful.
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Dad
Changed
Mom And Dad
Family Mom Dad
Anymore
Concept
Family Dad Mom
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If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.
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Subject Matter
Closes
Infuse
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The journey of making 'Hidden Figures' has shown me the automatic privilege that all white men are afforded in America in 2017 and in any and every year before that.
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Figures
Privilege
Afforded
Automatic
Hidden
Shown
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We're all humans. Any human can tell any human's story. I don't want to have this conversation about black film or white film anymore. I wanna have conversations about film.
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Humans
Wanna
Conversations
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I can't stand toe-to-toe with Bill Murray. It's very hard, because just looking at Bill - he's 6'3", and he just stares at you, and you have no idea what's going on inside that mind of his.
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No Idea
Bill Murray
Just Looking
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For me, as a feminist, as somebody who wants to lift up women - because I do; I come from a single mom who raised three boys on her own - I feel like, you close the door on women, you close the door on humanity.
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Single Mom
Lift
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We don't have parades for mathematicians, we have parades for astronauts. You don't think about all the thousands of people who worked on that capsule and crunched the numbers and were integral in getting that into space.
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Numbers
Parades
Astronauts
Integral
Mathematicians
Thousands Of People
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My wife says I have happy delusions. I'm delusional that way. I just say, 'This is how it's got to be, and it's got to be.' I don't take no. I just don't like no. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. That's just how I am.
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Delusional
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By the time I got to 'St Vincent,' I had shot so many scenarios I was ready for anything - I've shot kangaroos, I've shot dogs, cats, crowds, fight scenes, stunts, comedy, drama, handheld, dolly, helicopter, crane - I just felt that there was nothing I was unprepared for.
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Crowds
Scenarios
Unprepared
Cats
By The Time
Dogs
Helicopter
Stunts
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I grew up in Brooklyn, in what I now know was poverty. Sharing a tiny bedroom with my two brothers, eating government cheese and passing down sneakers until they were unpassable... I simply thought the whole world lived as such, especially in pre-gentrified Williamsburg of the 1980s.
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Bedroom
Brooklyn
Cheese
Passing
Sneakers
Tiny
Sharing
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After a tumultuous 20-year marriage, my father up and left one day, leaving my mother to raise three boys without the means to do so. And yet somehow she did. At the age of 50, she enrolled in nursing school and became a nurse and worked countless overtime hours and weekend shifts just to give us a fighting chance.
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Nursing
Countless
Enrolled
Overtime
Shifts
Tumultuous
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