I like Scott Caan. I think he's a great young kid. I think he's gonna have a really huge career. Jerry Weintraub More Quotes by Jerry Weintraub More Quotes From Jerry Weintraub Pauline Kael had seen Nashville, and she loved Nashville. When I called her, she immediately responded to me because we had become friends, and I told her how great this film was, and she told me, "Well, I'll have to see it for myself." So I showed it to her, and she flipped. Jerry Weintraub film I do characters. I believe in that. I think people are interesting. Now, everybody that you meet in New York City thinks that their life is a movie. Jerry Weintraub character believe thinking As my life went on and I met Frank Sinatra and people like that, and I watched live performers on stage, I learned how to tell a story. Because if you listen to Sinatra, all of his songs are stories; there's a beginning, middle, and end. So that's where it comes from. Jerry Weintraub frank song people Talented people have to do what they do. Someone can criticize but you do what you do. Jerry Weintraub criticize people That story about the two women in my life is - a lot of people get upset, a lot of people question it. Steven Soderbergh said to me, "The story of your life is incredible. The real story of your life that's interesting, more interesting than all the other stuff - the franchises, the movies, the songs, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra - the real thing that's interesting and unbelievable is the relationship with these two women. And if you're willing to put that out there, you know then, you're going to have a great movie. Because that's the movie." Jerry Weintraub real song people I am humble. It was an honor, and I cried the first time I saw the film His Way. Because to have people of that caliber, like Julia Roberts, take the time to sit down and give a day or two of their lives to a film about me, that they're not getting paid for, is pretty extraordinary. Jerry Weintraub humble giving people I had faith in them, i believed in my artists. Everything's that's Cirque du Soleil right now -- contortionists, jugglers, acrobats -- those were the people I was around. Jerry Weintraub top-news I have a hit book, I have a wonderful life and I'm doing a million things in the theatrical business. Why would I have any regrets? i can't have any regrets. They'd have to give me a lobotomy. Jerry Weintraub top-news He was completely aware of the level of fame because that's what destroyed him. He was cloistered, he was locked up all the time, he couldn't go out to a restaurant unless we closed the restaurant, he couldn't go to a movie unless we closed the theater ... it's a very hard way to live. Listen: He gave up his freedom knowingly because he was such a huge star. Jerry Weintraub top-news I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.' Jerry Weintraub me you people way I have a very big phone book and a very long reach around the world. And I think - I don't think, I know - that 95 percent of the people who I know who weren't born into success who have become successful and done things that are different and made a lot of money and had a lot of excitement in their life are people who never hear the word 'no.' Jerry Weintraub money success life people If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it. Jerry Weintraub live you world ideas Will Smith is fantastic. Jerry Weintraub will-smith smith will fantastic 'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score. Jerry Weintraub piece great score film I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones. Jerry Weintraub had great great-ones luck When I was a young boy, very young boy, mothers didn't work. Women were home, they took care of the house, they washed the dishes and took care of the children. That's what they did, and that's what my mother did. Jerry Weintraub women mother work home Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set. Jerry Weintraub learn great know stage The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are into instant gratification. They want things bigger and bigger. I don't make those kind of movies. I make movies about relationships. Jerry Weintraub movies go see want When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is. Jerry Weintraub skin game you age I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end. Jerry Weintraub i-am you man truth
