David Slade Quotes
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The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
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Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
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Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.
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My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.
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Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
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That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.
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For cubic U I didn't know how it all got started at all.
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The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
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When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
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The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE.
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Henotheism is the view that there are other gods, but there is only one God who is to be worshipped. The Ten Commandments express a henotheistic view, as does the majority of the Hebrew Bible. The book of Isaiah, with its insistence that “I alone am God, there is no other,” is monotheistic. It represents the minority view in the Hebrew Bible.
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I think, as a filmmaker, you're always responsible for your film.
