Kaya Scodelario Quotes
I was very hesitant about doing a period film. It was very much out of my comfort zone; I'd never done anything like that before.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
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The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.
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I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
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If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.
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Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.
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India needs a change - it cannot be ruled by 80-year-olds and by people who have done nothing for it.
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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
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I'll never try to put on a fake image. I'm just Zac.
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I try to deal with my serious reading before work.
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I was very hesitant about doing a period film. It was very much out of my comfort zone; I'd never done anything like that before.
