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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When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
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Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
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One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.
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When characters are drifting away from the "correct road", or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose control, they find other goals...and possibly their real selves. All these moments of changes, of self-questioning, are like an engine to the films I make - that's where lie the dynamics I'm interested in as a director.
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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.
