Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes
I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
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My favorite thing about this business is you're just jammed in a room on a set with like-minded people - writers, directors, and art designers and hairdressers. People who didn't work a 9-to-5 but chose this life. You're going to like at least two or three people in that you love these people so much.
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I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
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I don't read books.
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I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.
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I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
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Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?
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Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.
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On behalf of the entire Lionsgate team, it is a tremendous honor and deeply humbling to join the elite group of recipients previously honored with the Milestone Award.
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I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.
