Chris Meledandri Quotes

If you're going to make a movie about a character who is a supervillain, it's fantastic to have a core sense of empathy for that character.

Chris Meledandri

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• Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

  

  Tea Leoni
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• It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.

  

  Yael Stone
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• 'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

  

  Verne Troyer
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• What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

  

  Sally Hawkins
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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.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
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• Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
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• I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
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• No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.

  

  Tamra Davis
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• Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.

  

  E. G. Marshall
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• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
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• I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

  

  Uta Hagen
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• The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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• The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

  

  Dan Glickman
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• I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

  

  Hans Kung
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• You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.

  

  Jimmy Piersall

• Lyft came out of a hackathon project where we were trying to figure out what does Zimride look like on mobile.

  

  Logan Green
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• I always say, 'If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.' I couldn't be happier with where I ended up and how it worked out.

  

  Brett Young
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• I am ready to be alone.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
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• If you're going to make a movie about a character who is a supervillain, it's fantastic to have a core sense of empathy for that character.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Empathy