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The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
People
Big
Extraordinary
Extraordinary People
How
Piracy
Realize
Amount
One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Value
Pay
Films
Market
Television
One Of The Things
Direction
Segments
Driving
Dropping
Particular
Just
After
Them
Really
Many
Fast
Things
My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
You
Experience
Win
Whatever
Wave
Possibly
Tidal
Coming
Against
What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
More
More And More
Movies
Searching
Keep
Right
Gravity
As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Bullying
You
Together
Experience
People
Better
Try
Nice
Everyone
Those
Kind
More
Insure
Screaming
Producer
Shouting
Many
Nice People
Bring
Set
It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Work
You
Director
Everything
Find
Like
Look
Body
Hard
Who
People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Me
People
Tomorrow
Laugh
Know
Because
Doing
Even
Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?
Lorne Michaels
Pocket
Could
Hot
Around
Get
Here
'Saturday Night Live' has always been, you know, non-partisan - whoever's in power should probably be challenged.
Lorne Michaels
You
Power
Live
Know
Always
Been
Should
Whoever
Challenged
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Night
The only show I ever really wanted to do was 'SNL.' It was some sort of merging of my talent and my metabolism. It suited who I am and what I do really well, though whatever I was thinking it was, it kept mutating and growing. At first, I didn't even know that the cast would be the thing everybody talked about. We thought it would be the hosts.
Lorne Michaels
Thought
First
Whatever
Thinking
Everybody
Suited
Though
Would
Would-Be
Some
About
Only
Cast
Hosts
Merging
Talent
Know
Well
Talked
Sort
Metabolism
Am
SNL
Wanted
Really
Show
Who
Even
Growing
Ever
Thing
Kept
There are things in low comedy that make people uncomfortable, and there are things in high comedy that make people bored.
Lorne Michaels
People
Comedy
High
Bored
Uncomfortable
Make
Low
Things
When Sinead O'Connor tore up the picture of the Pope, you could hear a pin drop. I didn't know it was coming, obviously, because at dress, she had held up a picture of Balkan orphans, which I thought was really meaningful and what she wanted to do.
Lorne Michaels
You
Thought
Drop
Picture
Dress
Could
Had
Know
Obviously
She
Because
Coming
Pin
Hear
Up
Wanted
Which
Meaningful
Held
Really
Pope
Orphans
There's nothing that sells stuff like television. Nothing.
Lorne Michaels
Nothing
Television
Stuff
Like
Sells
I grew up in a time where on things like 'The Red Skeleton Show' or even to a certain extent on 'The Carol Burnett Show,' people wrote in the breakouts or ad-libs. They were scripted to look spontaneous. So I always had a dislike of that kind of thing.
Lorne Michaels
Time
People
Carol
Carol Burnett
Kind
Had
Red
Like
Spontaneous
Look
Wrote
Always
Were
Up
Where
Grew
Burnett
Skeleton
Scripted
Dislike
Certain
Certain Extent
Show
Show People
Even
Thing
Things
Extent
All saints are selfish.
Lorne Michaels
Selfish
Saints
All babies are ugly unless they're your baby.
Lorne Michaels
Ugly
Babies
Baby
Unless
Your
I'm always very fearful when academics get ahold of comedy. Comedy is such a clear thing - people laugh, or they don't laugh. It's involuntary. I'm not saying it can't be scrutinized, it's just that they take the enjoyment out of it.
Lorne Michaels
Saying
People
Comedy
Laugh
Out
Fearful
Take
Clear
Involuntary
Academics
Always
Very
Get
Just
Scrutinized
Thing
Enjoyment
We make fun of our leaders.
Lorne Michaels
Our
Leaders
Make
Fun
You can't be perfect for 90 minutes.
Lorne Michaels
You
Minutes
Perfect
I never had a particular sound. There was no Lou Adler sound like there's a Phil Spector sound. I always tried to make the records about the artists and their particular sound.
Lou Adler
Adler
Tried
About
Records
Never
Had
Particular
Like
Make
Always
Sound
Artists
Spector
Phil
Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.
Lou Adler
Music
Art
Time
Thought
Before
Ability
Something
Risk
Having
Mainstream
Surf
Were
Been
Nor
Art Form
Did
Done
Just
Form
Either
Interesting
Should
Albums
Johnny Rivers is underestimated as an artist. We had four top 10 singles.
Lou Adler
Top
Johnny
Had
Rivers
Underestimated
Singles
Artist
Four
There's nothing worse than making a good movie that doesn't get seen.
Lucy Fisher
Good
Seen
Nothing
Worse
Good Movie
Making
Than
Get
Movie
I like all kinds of movies. I really do.
Lucy Fisher
Kinds
Like
Movies
Really
Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.
Lynda Obst
Business
Women
Directing
Directors
Writers
Studio
Heads
Any
Frontier
Movie
Movie Business
Producers
Last
Numbers
I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.
Lynda Obst
Think
He
Part
Until
Parts
Does
Always
Then
Actor
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