Bill Watterson Quotes
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.
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I don't necessarily like wearing lipstick; I just think it's funny to do. I think the darker the better, but it's whatever my girlfriend Kiera has in her purse.
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I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.
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Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.
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Jochum had said, 'You keep asking the universe 'How ought I to live?' But it can't answer.'
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I always felt that the telefilm directors made wonderful films, which are even better than the big screen movies, but never got enough opportunities to showcase their talents on the big screens.
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People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.
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I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
