George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
work
As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.
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Simon Monjack had nothing to do with 'Factory Girl.' He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us... making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.
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Kelly Preston is a remarkable human being and a great dramatic actress. It was a privilege as a director to tap into this part of her. Rarely do I make a kind of spiritual connection with my cast. Kelly was a wonderful exception. She is truly very special and I adore her.
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I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.
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I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.
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There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
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When you think of a brand, you should immediately understand it from the advertising attitude, from the words and visuals.
technology
What Apple did for technology is brilliant, but they didn't do nothin' for our economy.
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Truly great images make all the other millions of images you look at unimportant. You gotta look at an image and understand it in a nanosecond.
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The producers of 'Mad Men,' you know, think I hate their show, which is true.
people
People say I'm the original Don Draper. I'm not Don Draper.
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Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.
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My concern has always been with creating images that catch people's eyes, penetrate their minds, warm their hearts and cause them to act.
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It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.