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Ron Howard is a great filmmaker and also a great storyteller in 60- and 30-minute shows, so why isn't he going to be a great storyteller in 10-minute pieces?
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Great
He
Pieces
Also
Going
Ron
Storyteller
Shows
Why
Filmmaker
When I was a kid, I wanted to be That Girl. I even wrote a spec script for it and sent it to Sam Denoff.
Jeffrey Klarik
Girl
Kid
Wrote
Sam
Wanted
Script
Sent
Even
When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee.
Jeffrey Klarik
You
Old
Become
Assume
Television
TV
Van
Something
Network
Network Television
Write
Writer
Writers
Put
Like
Discover
Dick Van Dyke
Quickly
American
Committee
Going
Just
Want
Decide
Dyke
Show
Beijing is a place where you can go and try on all kinds of hats. It's also a place where you can hide really easily.
Jennifer Salt
You
Hide
Try
Easily
Kinds
Hats
Also
Go
Beijing
Where
Place
Really
I never wrote. I also never really thought about being an actor. But when it was time to go to high school, we couldn't afford private school, so I tried out for all the special schools in New York.
Jennifer Salt
Time
School
Thought
Out
High
Tried
High School
About
Never
New
Also
Schools
Wrote
Go
Private
Private School
Afford
York
New York
Being
Really
Special
Actor
Our parents got divorced when I was 8 or 9.
Jennifer Todd
Parents
Our
Divorced
Got
I think Johnny Depp could play just about any role - I'd love to see what he would do with the Red Queen!
Jennifer Todd
Love
Queen
Think
Would
See
About
Johnny
Johnny Depp
Could
He
Red
Role
Any
Just
Depp
Play
I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.
Jeremy Thomas
Business
Think
Having
Idea
Came
Brain
Anybody
Movie
Movie Business
Original
Original Idea
I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.
Jeremy Thomas
You
People
World
Cinema
Sense
Think
British People
Worldwide
Global
Look
Always
Been
Historically
Endeavour
Place
Little
Roots
England
Travellers
British
We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Dramatic
Entertain
Audiences
Real
Situations
Want
Whether
Create
A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Competition
Marketplace
Released
Out
Had
Lot
I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Other
Catch
Know
Makes
Just
Movie
Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Good
Sometimes
Year
Enough
Only
Feel
Make
Get
Want
Script
In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Love
TV
Something
Process
Used
There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Me
Inspire
Lot
Movies
Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Me
Failure
Fear
Definitely
Drives
I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Will
Think
See
Make
Because
Audiences
Go
Want
Movies
Them
I make movies based on gut.
Jerry Bruckheimer
Gut
Make
Movies
Based
I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.
Jerry Weintraub
Myself
People
Enjoy
Lock
Easily
Easy
Guy
Open
Tower
Like
Know
Make
Friends
Ivory
Get
Gregarious
If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.
Jerry Weintraub
You
Creative
World
Live
New
Ideas
Got
New Ideas
Go
Go For It
Norm
Get
Want
Which
Then
Away
Will Smith is fantastic.
Jerry Weintraub
Will
Will Smith
Smith
Fantastic
'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.
Jerry Weintraub
Great
Liberace
Great Film
Great Script
Piece
Material
Score
Script
Film
I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.
Jerry Weintraub
Good
Creative
Entrepreneur
Gut
Executive
Learned
Go
Want
The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are into instant gratification. They want things bigger and bigger. I don't make those kind of movies. I make movies about relationships.
Jerry Weintraub
Relationships
Those
Kids
Kind
See
About
More
Costs
Higher
Instant
Instant Gratification
Budgets
Make
Go
Want
Movie
Bigger
Movies
Them
Much
Gratification
Now
Things
It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.
Jerry Weintraub
Life
You
Win
Try
My Life
Lose
Back
Tell
Structure
Scheme
Fail
Been
Accumulate
Again
Plan
Then
I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end.
Jerry Weintraub
Truth
Spiritual
You
Man
Book
Will
Big
Down
Believe
Know
Until
Dead
Talking
Because
Does
Am
Hand
End
Heaven
Stop
Even
Keep
Keep Talking
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