Elliott Smith Quotes
There's some records that sell millions of copies, that it's really unclear if anybody liked it who was making it, y'know?
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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What you see in 'Daredevil' and 'Jessica Jones' isn't the Hell's Kitchen of today; it's a version of what it was like.
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Loneliness made or ruined a man. It frightened him so that he must either sing and build in the face of the dark, like a bird or a beaver, or hide from it like a beast in his den. There were perhaps always only the two ways to go, God or the jungle.
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Remember that all is opinion.
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I wouldn't mind a little bow. In Japan, they bow. I love it. Only thing I love about Japan.
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In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.
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There's some records that sell millions of copies, that it's really unclear if anybody liked it who was making it, y'know?
