There are times when you need OPEC and when you don't. You only need OPEC when you have major oversupply and OPEC doesn't want prices to crash any further.

Gary Ross

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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

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There is no right way to live. You preclude a lot of life by trying to conform to that kind of ideal or stereotype. And it's a natural inclination in a world where it's so complex and so occasionally valueless, morally bankrupt, and chaotic that we want to reach back to something in our past.

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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

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You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think t... by Gary Ross

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.

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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

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There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people... by Gary Ross

There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

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As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

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I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

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You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, thi... by Gary Ross

You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.

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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's... by Gary Ross

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

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As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

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Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

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With budget needs at above $85 per barrel, the Saudis desperately need prices at above $70 per barrel, they also need to convince Russia that the strategy of output cuts makes sense despite the loss of market share to the United States.

It will be enough for now but not enough for the fourth quarter to address a decline in Iranian and Venezuelan exports, there isn't a lot of spare capacity in the world. If we lose a million bpd of output from Venezuela and Iran in the fourth quarter, where will all these barrels come from? We are in for higher prices for longer.

The Saudis trashed OPEC in Doha. But they realized they don't want to throw away decades of OPEC history and decided to be more cooperative.