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I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.

~Douglas Sirk

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There's been a bit of confusion about Showscan. The basic problem was, it was film and it was 70 mm and it was a lot of it, so the negative cost was very high, the print costs were very high, and it also required conversion of the projectors and theaters and a lot of costs. I just couldn't get any traction in the theatrical movie industry to do it.

~Douglas Trumbull

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I'd formed a research and development company under the banner of Paramount Pictures back in about 1975, and its mandate was to explore advanced forms of entertainment, not just movies.

~Douglas Trumbull

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Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

~Douglas Wilder

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Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it.

~Douglas Wilder

Topics: About America Believe Big Big Business Business Call Everybody Fair Government Involving Makes Money Must One Way Other Policy Politics Pundits See Themselves Then Those Today Way Whether Who

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Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

~Douglas Wilson

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Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.

~Douglas Wood

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It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

~Dougray Scott

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You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.

~Dougray Scott

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I am definitely a summer person. Don't get me wrong: I love winter when it's beautiful and sunny - I don't really care about cold - I just hate the grey.

~Doutzen Kroes

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