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Where do I get the confidence to be different? A lot of it comes from curiosity. I spent years as a young man trying to understand the business I'm in. I have spent decades staying connected to how the rest of the world works.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Be Different Business Confidence Connected Curiosity Decades Different Get How Lot Man Rest Spent Staying Trying Understand Where Works World Years Young Young Man

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You should not do everything in your power to make reviewers cranky before - right before they see your movie.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Before Cranky Everything Make Movie Power Reviewers Right See Should You Your

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The physical effort of reading drains some of the pleasure I might take from whatever I'm reading.

~Brian Grazer

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No one in Hollywood really knows what a good idea is before a movie hits the screens. We only know if it's a good idea after it's done.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: After Before Done Good Good Idea Hits Hollywood Idea Know Knows Movie Only Really Screens

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I know just how often people get told 'no' to their brilliant ideas - not just most of the time, but 90 percent of the time.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Brilliant Get How Ideas Just Know Most Often People Percent Time

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Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the 'no' - and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars in Detroit, if you manage hedge funds in Lower Manhattan, you also have to learn to beat the 'no.'

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Also Beat Car Code Design Detroit Everybody Funds Hedge Hollywood Learn Lower Manage Manhattan Silicon Silicon Valley Valley Write You

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I think the global mass culture is either consciously or unconsciously sensitized to how vulnerable we are here on the planet.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Culture Either Global Here How Mass Planet Think Vulnerable I Think

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My world was small growing up. I never really left the three-mile radius of my tiny neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.

~Brian Grazer

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A movie has to get good reviews, high grosses - it has to beat expectations. The same thing with television and the ratings. But being curious isn't like that. It's not a public thing. It's private, and the test is a private one. You have to be on your toes.

~Brian Grazer

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When I am talking to someone, I can constantly see whether I am failing or succeeding. I am regulating what I am saying in terms of how I think I'm doing. I'm always searching for the truth of a subject or person, and I look at every meeting as a grand experiment.

~Brian Grazer

Topics: Always Am Constantly Doing Every Experiment Failing Grand How Look Meeting Person Saying Searching See Someone Subject Succeeding Talking Terms Think Truth Whether I Think I Am I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: July 12th, 1951

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