"I think the executives at the studios today……" — Richard D. Zanuck
"I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea."
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17 Quotes by Richard D. Zanuck
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The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.
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In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less…
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A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter…
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I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.
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The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We…
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These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.
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Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And…
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I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's…
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I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was…
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It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't…
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It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any…
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Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between…
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot…
— Audre Lorde
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In order to look special wearing the chancy unique; it must be worn with your persona, and if the two…
— David Bowie
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The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly…
— Dennis Holme Robertson
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America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted;…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it.…
— Louis L'Amour
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Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.
— Shana Alexander
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves
— Robert A. Dahl
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The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine,…
— Keith Miller
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Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it…
— Gregory Maguire
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Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.
— Chris Bohjalian
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