Christopher Nolan Quotes
I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often that tends to get underestimated.
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.
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I love working with younger people. I feel like we need to catch up with them. In South Asian art it's important to address the fact that the majority of what we see is Hindu, and based in Hinduism, and that it has a social and cultural history. Islam and Muslim culture are often now figured as these outside invaders who came into India, and this is in the service of a more right-wing nationalist discourse that is Islamophobic. And that's part of the worldwide Islamophobia moment that we're having right now.
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Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
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I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.
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I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often that tends to get underestimated.
