David MacKenzie Quotes
I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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I don't care about revenues.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.
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I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.
