Danny Elfman Quotes
Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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Every wall is a door.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I don't like controversy.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.
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Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.
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My mother always told me to take pride in my appearance.
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I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.
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Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.
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Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.
