Dave Chappelle Quotes

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

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• I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

  

  Ornette Coleman
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  • Good

• Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

  

  Barry Eisler
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• One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.

  

  Randy Houser
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  • Eyes

• 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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• Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

  

  Halle Berry
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  • You
  • Criticism

• There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
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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
  • People
  • Character
  • Job

• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Process
  • Adventure
  • Miracle

• I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Power
  • Movie
  • Myself

• The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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  • Art

• One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

  

  Sam Mendes
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• After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.

  

  Gary Krist
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  • Soul
  • Mystery

• I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
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• The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
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• I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Job
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  • Fun

• I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.

  

  Nancy Garden
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  • Kids
  • Think

• To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.

  

  Joel Edgerton
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• If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

  

  Sade Adu
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• I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast writing the stories because I was writing in a voice more my own, as opposed to a man's. HBO ended up buying four of them. I think that had a direct impact on my decision to write a book.

  

  Jill Davis
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• The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
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• Endorsing unconventional monetary policies unquestioningly is tantamount to saying that it is acceptable to distort asset prices if there are other domestic constraints on growth.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Growth
  • Saying
  • Asset

• Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

  

  Dave Chappelle
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