Norman Jewison Quotes

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• I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.
• I work with a lot of movie stars.
• I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a…
• Betrayal... is my favorite subject.
• I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so…
• I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite…
• I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.
• I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.
• In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
• It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like…
• But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.
• The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.
• We live in an age of publicity and hype. There's something about success that dehumanizes you, whereas failure reminds you of who you really are.
• We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.
• When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to…
• Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of…
• Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.
• A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.
• I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.
• I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people…

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