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James Toback Biography

James Toback (born November 23, 1944) is an American screenwriter and film director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1991 for Bugsy. He has directed films including The Pick-up Artist, Two Girls and a Guy and Black and White.

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The collaborator has to be someone who understands that his role is to help you articulate what you want, but at the same time is not just going to be mechanically obeying, but adding to, supplementing, and coming up with stuff.

Collaborator, Mechanically, Roles, Same, Stuff, Want

In a way, I think that the movie Fight Club [1999] did a weird, negative thing to boxing, culturally. I mean, it is sort of similar to what has happened to the novel. For however many good novels are written, the novel itself has completely lost its place.

Boxing, Culturally, Fighting, Mean, Movie, Thinking

I feel like Alain Delon, who once said, "It doesn't matter that I'm not a star in America because I'm a huge star in France, I'm a legend in Spain, and I'm a god in Japan.

Matter, Star, God, Delon, Said, France

Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely.

Assimilated, Completely, Death, Life, Part, Parts Of Life

When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.

Behavior, Measured, Observed, Opposite, People, Rational

Some people get married and they remain "I," some get married and become "we. "

Become, Married, People, Remain

I felt, "Oh, film is a great art because I can pull in music and visual imagery, and it has its literary aspects and drama. " Film was a sort of Wagnerian synthesis of the arts, as opposed to opera, which Wagner had thought would be. That's another art form that has seen its best days.

Art, Days, Drama, Film, Opposed, Wagner

You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done.

Believe, Convince, Done, Should

I think that one of the things that is happening in the so-called "clash of civilizations" is that the confidence that was once obvious in the Western Judeo-Christian tradition has been weakened tremendously. There's a feeling that there's a cynical, corporate layer that's really driving it - one that's ready to compromise - and that the real confident energy around the world is coming from Islam, that the believers take their own faith at face value and with great confidence and in far greater numbers.

Civilizations, Cynical, Faith, Islam, Real, Thinking

I work seriously with complete integrity. I never, never, never have offered a part to anyone who didn't deserve it, and I've never not delivered when I do offer a part. My word is better than a contract.

Complete, Deserve, Integrity, Offered, Seriously, Word

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

Mistake, Ideas, Needs, Mistakes, System, Idea

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

Past, Mystery, Future And Present, History

To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.

Carrying, People, Six, Two, View, Views

Boxing is not coming back. There's not going to be a new Ali or a new Tyson. What's happened to movies is happening to boxing-that is, too much availability of alternative, similar entertainment. Movies started to become diluted with the advent of television; that has been mirrored by the dilution of boxing, with kickboxing and absolute, extreme homicidal fighting.

Fighting, Boxing, Advent, Absolute, Similar, Kickboxing

Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

America, Awards, Nice, Oldenburg