David MacKenzie Quotes
Being open to what's happening in front of you is the most important thing about being a director. To allow the magic to exist and to be light enough on your feet to harness it as it's happening. That's what makes cinema interesting.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.
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It's interesting how Rod Stewart can father a child at 65, and a straight, single footballer named Cristiano Ronaldo can arrange to have a surrogate have a baby, and neither of them receives any criticism.
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Being open to what's happening in front of you is the most important thing about being a director. To allow the magic to exist and to be light enough on your feet to harness it as it's happening. That's what makes cinema interesting.
