David Yates Quotes
A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama.
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I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.
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Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
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Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.
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A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.
