Dave Itzkoff quotes

Often, as an interviewer, particularly when you're talking to highly visible people, celebrities, and it's known that negative things have happened, they don't want to talk about it, or you have to really work up to it. You have to carefully construct the conversation so that they feel open enough to discuss some of those things with you. (Dave Itzkoff)
Certainly, no studio is going to put its money and its muscle behind something that they don't think they can spin five or six movies out of and build a whole kind of imaginary universe from anymore, I think. View quote
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I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that process because it will really force you to organize your time. View quote
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Robin Williams was a cultural hero of mine, and in the encounters and interactions I was able to share with him, he was always gentle and generous, humane and thoughtful and hilarious. View quote
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Where would heist movies be without the Big Score - that payoff so irresistible it can lure the most jaded desperado out of hiding? View quote
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As an ardent supporter of the Nietzschean conception of the eternal recurrence, I firmly believe that one cannot validate the totality of a life unless one accepts and embraces all the experiences that comprise it. That said, I sometimes wish I'd gone to film school. View quote
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I can't anticipate what's going to happen to me next, but I'd like to think that I'm going to lead a life that's not really memoir-worthy, and that would be fine! View quote
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There's always going to be the market for people who are known to have led wild and crazy lives. View quote
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It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are in that community, but if you want it to endure as an art form you have to let other people have their way with it. View quote
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To reach a mass audience, you have to offer more than just hostility. View quote
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The 'Star Wars' films are known for their exotic aliens, sophisticated robots, sleek technology, and planet-sized battle stations. (Dave Itzkoff)
It is a fundamental impossibility to have a magazine that is anarchic and yet formulaic. Those can't coincide. View quote
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Where nationally televised news had been a once-nightly ritual, it has since grown into a 24-hour-a-day habit, available on channels devoted entirely and ceaselessly to its dissemination. View quote
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Dave Itzkoff

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Photo: Montclair Film Festival, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: American Journalist
Born: March 2, 1976
Quotes count: 13