Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
Robert DuvallRead
I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the enduring passion and enthusiasm for acting, suggesting a commitment to the craft regardless of challenges.
Robert Duvall expresses his unwavering dedication to acting, highlighting his enjoyment in portraying diverse characters and his refusal to give up even when faced with obstacles. This reflects not only his love for the craft but also a broader sentiment about perseverance and maintaining enthusiasm for one's passions throughout life.
In practice
During a motivational speech about pursuing your dreams.
Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.
Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.
Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.
The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.
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