Toronto Quotes - Page 3

• I love Toronto, I have spent a lot of time up there working. There's a lot of stuff going on there.

  Steve Zahn

  Stuff

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• I think "Avatar" is kind of a unique category where people are enjoying the unique theatrical experience even though they may have seen it on the small screen. They want to have that immersive, transportive experience. "2001: A Space Odyssey" played for three years at the Loews cinema in Toronto. I remember that. It just kept playing. People wanted to return to that experience. That may not be the best example because I think "2001" took 25 years to break even.

  James Cameron

  Thinking, Unique, Break Even

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto.

  Robin Williams

  Nice, Village, Ifs

  Source: movieweb.com

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• The nice thing about Toronto is there's not a competition.

  John Turturro

  Nice, Competition, Nice Things

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• I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.

  Paulo Costanzo

  New York, People, East

  "Royal Pains Q&A: Paulo Costanzo". The Morning Call Interview, www.mcall.com. May 20, 2009.

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• My dad's a prominent theatre director in Toronto, so I grew up in that world, directing and producing theater since I was a teenager. I always loved movies but they seemed too complicated until I got a job as an assistant on a movie-of-the-week and the technical process became demystified, like peeking behind a magician's curtain. Not long after that I switched to movies and never looked back.

  Ed Gass-Donnelly

  Jobs, Dad, Teenager

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.

  Jake Epstein

  School, Play, Band

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• I am honoured to have the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of my esteemed colleague and fellow poet Mr. Dennis Lee, it will be with pride and passion that I carry forward the mandate of the Poet Laureate position for the City of Toronto and its residents.

  Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

  Passion, Pride, Opportunity

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• I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

  Debi Mazar

  Drama, Three, Television

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• I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and so forth.

  Atom Egoyan

  Twilight, Television, Shots

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• The biggest problem with the independent film sector in Toronto is that they find themselves having to make that budget show on screen.

  Atom Egoyan

  Independent, Problem, Film

  CineAction! Interview with Ron Brunett, May, 1989.

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• I know what it's like to live in a cold climate. I grew up in the Snow Belt, north of Toronto in Canada, and I did years and years of running outside.

  Victoria Pratt

  Running, Years, Snow

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• I feel entirely grateful and appreciative of being able to make something up and do it, and I'm very grateful how well it's gone. I'm a guy from Toronto who just wanted to be an actor since he was eight so it's all kind-of crazy. Shrek has been wonderfully successful, it did really well in the States, and so it's magical to me, still. I'm still that kid from Toronto.

  Mike Myers

  Crazy, Grateful, Kids

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• For some reason at Sundance, more than other festivals that I'm aware of, you find filmmakers rushing to screen works that sometimes aren't completed. In my seven years of programming at Toronto, I'm not aware of any documentaries that went back for serious editing after their premiere - other than those presented as works-in-progress. But at Sundance every year there seems to be a few films that push the deadline so hard that they get taken back to the edit room afterwards.

  Thom Powers

  Taken, Editing, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I had dropped out of theater school after six months and was just staying on my mom's couch at home in Toronto.

  Scott Speedman

  Mom, Home, School

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• I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.

  Scott Speedman

  Years, Always Trying, University

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• Kensington Market is a must visit place in Toronto.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  "Mary Elizabeth Winstead Exclusive Interview SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD; We Also Talk Vintage Clothing Stores, Toronto, THE THING". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 16, 2010.

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• I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.

  Rick Moranis

  Cities, Years, Different

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• But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.

  Aaron McGruder

  America, Differences, People

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• I bought a house in LA, hanging out there and spending a lot of time in Toronto, but not much.

  Scott Speedman

  House, Spending, Hanging Out

  "Scott Speedman for 'xXx: State of the Union'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. April 26, 2005.

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• I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

  Eric Roberts

  Film, Coming Out, Spun

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• I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

  Spike Lee

  New York, Film, Ifs

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• I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.

  Paulo Costanzo

  Kids, Thinking, Hands

  "Royal Pains Q&A: Paulo Costanzo". The Morning Call Interview, www.mcall.com. May 20, 2009.

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• (Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Cities, Canada, Portraits

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• I literally finished 7th Heaven, went up to Toronto, and started SAW. So, it was definitely a little mind change.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Heaven, Mind, Littles

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