Bruce Vilanch Quotes
14 Bruce Vilanch quotes:
"It's really live television, the way God meant it to be."
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"It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about."
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"Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him."
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"Generally with the Oscars or the Emmys there isn't much you can do until the nominations are announced. Then you know what kind of year you're dealing with - what's been overlooked, what the issues are."
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"I do a lot of screen re-writing."
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"I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee."
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"I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees."
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"I've never had to write a spec script."
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"I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches."
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"Sometimes there are people you can't make jokes about because the situation is embarrassing, especially if they're going to be there. It's just cruel."
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"They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world."
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"What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh."
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"It is something I'm still sticking to. I'm still working out, and I'm still on Zone food. I'm still losing weight."
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"It's over. Once you see they've got a list, people have already stopped listening."
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