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Tim Robbins

lines on the record: 44
first: 2010-07-18
most recent: 2010-07-18
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I've taken a couple lessons. I really love it. However, I'm not very good at it, so I figure I'll have lots of time on my hands and what better way to spend that to become a world-class surfer.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would probably take my time before I decided which tree I wanted to settle down with, but when I did decide what tree I liked the best, this is the song I'd put on and we'd have a nice dance.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, when you're alone on a desert island, there are going to be moments when you need a little romance. A little, you know, I don't know, you got to find what tree you like the best to dance with.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no I don't own a television I've gotten rid of my television I had a great realization last October I moved into a new place and I Well, I'm not going to buy a television. I just don't want it. You don't need the noise. You don't need people to tell you how to feel, who to be angry at, who to love, who to think is sexy, who to think is nasty. There's so many different noises coming at you from the television. I'm much more inclined to sit in front of a computer or a typewriter and write if I don't have that noise coming in.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In Hollywoods. Yes, and I also know that out of that nastiness came an album. So when you get through something, what's the expression if it doesn't kill you? It makes you stronger.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would hope for a great amount of joy. I would hope that my kids are healthy and find their way into a way of life that allows them to support themselves but also gives them joy. And I would Hope that the road ahead is Like it has been For the last fifty one years it's always a road that I I am constantly surprised on I can't tell you where I'm going to be next month, and it's kind of a Odd way to live, but it allows for infinite possibilities.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this is a song that I've been playing recently. For me it's a reflective of where I am in my life. It's written by Warren Zivalon, and for me it's kind of like a prayer. called Don't Let Us Get Sick.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm cooked in a character, but what I'm writing, the dialogue I'm writing comes from me. Most of these songs are also about other people, too. There are some that are reflective of my own path and my own experience, and that's okay because it's not literal. When you write a song, you don't write exactly what happened. You fill it out and let yourself dream about it and let yourself imagine a perfect love or a more exciting reality. I think that's where those songs are written from.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I've always put a bit of myself out there. In every acting role I've ever done, there's part of me in there, part of myself in the writing in some way.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so you start thinking, well, how many years do I got left? It's at those moments you go What the hell am I doing here? And for me it was a number of things, but one of the things was I was trying to put this movie together and it just wasn't happening. And I my finances aren't coming through. This is a couple years ago. And I'm thinking this isn't going to happen, but I'm spending my own money. And so in the midst of this, in the sanity, I ask myself the question, what is it that will make you happy? What is it that you have not done that you would regret not doing? And it was I have all these songs, and nobody knows them, and nobody has ever heard em, and I want to see if they're any good.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But at fifty you can't imagine a hundred. And so you go, oh wow, I just, you know that hill? I've already been at the top of the hill.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's partly that it's I think it's when you pass forty actually. Inherently we double our age when we think about life, you know. And at forty you can imagine eighty.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Then I thought of how about songs of love and misery? And then, no, the misery part. I don't know. Midlife crisis. I think we all go through something. It's inevitable. It's unavoidable. You're staring some kind of frightening thing down what do you call it an existential crisis? What is it?”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I was thinking of calling it the Midlife Crisis Album. And then I thought, well, that's not going to sell any copies. Oh, I don't know.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As always seemed odd to me and it's something that I've never really addressed or acknowledged as part of my life I've always avoided. Speaking about how I feel about personal things in the public arena.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One of the best songs ever written If I could write a love song like this. I'd be a happy man a case of you, Joni Mitchell.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Less and less. I think it's something that you have to really manage or else it can really kick your butt. So I've been drinking less and less. I find that it's so much nicer in the morning when you haven't been. drinking the night before and I'm enjoying my mornings more and more. Let's have some drink.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, you kind of strip it off, but it starts to get in you. If you do it for seven weeks by the end you've got part of that person with you. It's also something that you get rid of. Some people let it affect them more than others. I just feel you have to be open and vulnerable and naked when you're trying to allow emotion in.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You check out the hotel. Do you? I'd have a normal day of nine to five kind of day and then all of a sudden be six or seven or eight or nine or ten o'clock and I'd still be editing. It's just you want to solve the problems, but it's not good for your family life. And as a matter of fact, I stop directing because of that. My son, who is seven at the time, said to me, Dad, I like it better when you act. And I knew exactly what he was talking about I'd check out just so I could get to know this great kid named Myles.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no, there was stress definitely stress. Directing is for me I become pretty deeply involved, pretty obsessed, and so I don't really have a life when I'm directing. I don't have any downtime really.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was fine. I liked having her there. You know, it's a little strange when you're playing somebody if they're there, so I don't know how Susan felt about it, but I liked her. She's a friend of mine. I saw her last month. She's a real force of nature.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's interesting. I would show her every draft before we started shooting. I would show her every draft. Did he? You know, she used to teach. So I would get my drafts back with spelling corrections grammatical corrections, but also... mainly my portrayal of a nun, that's something I needed help with.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, actually Susan found the book, and she brought it to me to read. It's a book by Sister Helen Prajon. And I read it and I thought, yeah, that would be a great movie. I wrote it pretty quick. It came in a couple months I had it done.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It began with me picking up the phone and him saying hello, this is Johnny Cash. And I was The hero of mine who I've loved for many years, and I don't know where it came from inside me. I don't know where I got the guts to do this, but I said Mr Cash I'd really appreciate it if you think about writing a new song. And he said, all right, well, I'll think about it. So two weeks later he got this recording in the mail, and I got to be friends with him after that, and he and his wife, and it was really sad when he passed a big loss.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's a little sanctimonious. It's a big hoop law. We didn't go on and on. We just pointed out an issue in the sea of red ribbons.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I did it in 93, I believe it was It was the first few months of Clinton's presidency he had promised during the campaign to close down an internment camp for HIV positive Haitians. and in the spirit of all the red ribbons that were being worn on those tuxedos that night we mentioned it. Within a week the internment camp was closed down. It was an embarrassment to the Clintons. The anger, I think, was that you know hey, this is a Democrat, you know, it's the Republicans that are the baddies. And, you know, I think that's more where that came from. Okay.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that's unfortunate. It didn't used to be that way. I don't believe you are free if you are measured and careful in what you say because you feel that will make you richer or more famous. I think there's a slavery in that.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm thinking no, no, no, no. I mean that I've always viewed theater as a popular art form. So we approach our material with the idea that we would like to appeal to people that have never seen theater before.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this whole album a meeting across the river I use on many occasions with the actors gang, it evokes so much emotion there is a certain wistfulness and joy in this one. Raikuter came and helped us with the score of dead men walking, and I use this track Isolay in the score of dead man walking.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's precociousness. It's a desperate need to get women's attention. Oh yeah. It's a time honor tradition. And that's also a reason why people pick up guitars.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I was again emulating my dad, he was an actor at this point. He started acting in Broadway and off Broadway shows. I did want to go to a performing arts high school my dad wouldn't allow that. He said you have to get an education first.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is, and I'm sad about that. The New York I grew up in was much more dangerous, but a lot more alive. I think a city starts to lose its vitality when it outprices itself. When an artist can't afford to live in a city, the city loses a lot.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was, it was also a little scary too. I mean, it didn't realize that until you're outside of it, but you know. Something I hadn't realized at the time which explained a lot of the behavior is these guys were hardcore enthusiasts of hallucinogens. And so part of the odd behavior I was dealing with was drug fueled and I didn't even know it because I was 12 years old at the time or something like that. I was just like wow this is a really weird and strange world.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ah, yes, it was a group called Angels of Light. It was more than Drag. It was kind of a big spectacle staged with an awful lot of glitter and outrageous costumes. The angels of light started in San Francisco by a guy named George Harris who changed his name to hibiscus. There's a very famous photo of a blonde haired kid putting a flower in the end of a rifle at the Pentagon at a protest in the sixties. And that's George Harris. George Harris was also the brother of my first girlfriend. That's how I came to be running spotlight for the angels of light.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is Nina Simone singing, Sinner. It was a song that my son actually reminded me of. He put it in a little film that he made. I think when he was about fourteen or fifteen years old. And I remember thinking wow, I think I've done something right here raising this kid because he's got really good taste in music.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ah, yes, I was. My father thought that was the case from birth. He thought I was very, very serious old man when I was born.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, first of all, let me preface it by saying that when you grow up somewhere, you have no idea that the whole world isn't like this. I have an image in my mind of a seven year old kid with a baseball glove in his hand going down McDougall Street to Washington Square Park to find a patch of grass, which is essentially my childhood. And on McDougall Street at the time were all kinds of interesting, iconoclastic genius people from Allen Ginsburg to Bob Dylan to Jambaez. I just imagined bumping into one of those folks when I was seven and not knowing.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She raised us, and then when I went to school she started working in the magazine business, but she also kept her singing going. She was in the New York Curl Society, and they would sing a couple concerts every year at Carnegie Hall.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“His group, the Highman, weren't particularly political group overtly, but it was interesting I hadn't really thought of them that way, and then I got sent a version of a live concert they did in 1963, october twenty sixth at MIT University. And they closed the set with universal soldier, the Buffy Saint Marie saw. And they finished the song and there's like a three second pause. Like people were kind of stunned. And then this eruption of applause from these MIT students. And I realized that was a very early statement against the Vietnam War that my dad and the group were doing.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, one of my first memories is seeing my dad up on stage and seeing him up there going well, he's leading all this. That's pretty cool.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, this one reaches way back. I heard this a couple years ago when Bruce Springsteen put his seeger sessions album out. When this track came on, it immediately made me remember my childhood, and I remember sitting on my mom's lap at a hoot and anny in Greenwich Village. My mom's name is Mary, and I remember her saying that song.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're only ever as good as your last box office receipt. In fact, you might have a really great Friday where the movie does very well. So you better go out Friday and Saturday nights because by Monday you're yesterday's news. Okay.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You have to have an immense amount of concentration, and you also have to be able to be as loose as you can possibly be because you have to roll with it. You can't let things upset you. If there's a plane that comes by in the best take you had ever done as an actor, it's not going to be used, so you have to just let it go and come back to it when there's silence.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it has to do with the specific training I got from a man named George Bigot, who is an actor from the Theatre de Sole in Paris, and I took a workshop with him in nineteen eighty four, and I was already a working actor at that time, and I couldn't get on stage. He would throw me off stage every time I tried to enter, and he would not suffer any kind of insincerity.”
2010-07-18 · Desert Island Discs · Tim Robbins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source