Tanya Wexler quotes

“I like esoteric stuff but it's not my voice - it's not what I have to make. It helps to make something that's accessible. It's an expensive medium and people put up a lot of money and you can't take that lightly. It's a privilege and it's easy to be flip about it. There's a lot of bullshit, but most people in the film business aren't getting rich. They're working hard.”
-- Tanya Wexler

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“I heard "romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England," and I was like, "You have got to be kidding me. Yes, I want to do that." And I had a bunch of small kids, and I didn't want something that was so impossibly difficult, a "broccoli movie." But I wanted something that meant something to me, so I just kind of said, "Let's go, jump in!" It took a long time to get Hysteria made, but it was really fun.”
-- Tanya Wexler

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“I figure if kids see a movie about 12-year-olds chopping each other up, they can probably see a movie where everyone keeps their clothes on and doesn't use foul language.”
-- Tanya Wexler

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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

“So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.”

“These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.”

“Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface...”

Source : Charles Stross (2009). “The Jennifer Morgue”, p.38, Penguin

“I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.”

“One-time revenue spikes that aren't repeatable won't help you achieve consistent year-after-year growth.”

“I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.”

“Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.”