Marjane Satrapi Quotes
As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.
Quotes to Explore
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.
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What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.
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I love production. I could do it 365 days a year. Post is different. It's just too slow, and everything is very finite.
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I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.
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On Bush 'Free Trade' policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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I’ve been walking my mind to an easy time,My back turned towards the sun.Lord knows the cold wind blows it’ll turn your head around.Well, there’s hours of time on the telephone line,To talk about things to come.Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.
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This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.
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When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.
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My quiet place is in the gym. When I feel like going to church, it's for me the MSG training facility and working on my game.
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Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amazing.
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I'm almost six feet tall and have a deep voice. People never knew how to cast me.
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My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.
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I really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.
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I love driving fast. I grew up in Germany; we have the Autobahn here, where we can drive without a speed limit. And throughout my 20s, I always had fast cars, and I always went to the maximum. Like, my average cruising speed was 250 km/hr.
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Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.
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Jim 'The Waco Kid': My name is Jim, most people call me... Jim.
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I do make lots of spelling mistakes still - for a time, the word 'corporate' on my website was spelled 'corprate.' But I'm not embarrassed. The way I see it, it is part of me. The key is to become completely confident about it.
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And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.
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As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.
