Quotes by James Toback

James Toback

[Robert Downey was being singled out for] selective prosecution. He’s a sweet guy who never did harm to anyone except himself. He’s been doing drugs for 20 years and functioning for 20 years, and in those 20 years there’ve been hundreds of people who’ve been getting high constantly and behaved very destructively and have not been arrested. Robert’s real problem is he gets caught.

Being Single

Real

Sweet

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.

Advent

Boxing

Fighting

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

Parts Of Life

I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that I’ve gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling like I’ve been shafted.

Feelings

Lucky

Wanted

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.

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

Drama

Film

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.

Cynical

Real

Thinking

I think there’s a general sense that the belief structures that existed and carried civilization forward have weakened to the point where they can no longer support it. They are not powerful enough to do it anymore because there is not enough serious belief in them.

Powerful

Support

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.

Deserve

Integrity

I’d been basically anchored in New York for three years, but I fled to L.A. after the funeral and decided that I had to start a movie immediately. It was the only way to avoid becoming overwhelmed by depression. And that meant financing the film myself because there is no such thing as “immediately” in movies that one writes.

Funeral

Overwhelmed

Writing

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Advent

America

Art

Awards

Behavior

Being Single

Believe

Boxing

Cynical

Deserve

Done

Drama

Dramatic Life

Feelings

Fighting

Film

Fun

Funeral

Future And Present

Giving

Hanging Around

Ideas

Integrity

Lucky

Lying

Married

Mean

Mistake

Mystery

Needs

Nice

Overwhelmed

Parts Of Life

Past

People

Powerful

Rational

Rave

Real

Roles

Should

Stills

Stuff

Support

Sweet

Thinking

Thirds

Two

Vicious

Views

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Quotes by James Toback

James Toback

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

I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that I’ve gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling like I’ve been shafted.

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.

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.

I think there’s a general sense that the belief structures that existed and carried civilization forward have weakened to the point where they can no longer support it. They are not powerful enough to do it anymore because there is not enough serious belief in them.

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.

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