David Cronenberg Quotes
The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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A good leader must be fair.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.
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This country cannot tolerate the fact that someone worked with Russia to undermine our democracy.
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People are loving me because they don't even know me. "You're Bob's son. We love you." So I think that's a good thing for a father to leave so much that people are loving their children. I'm proud of that.
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I use Facebook all the time. I'm not a believer that they're going to do everything on the Internet better than anyone else.
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The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.
