Dean Devlin Quotes
I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
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My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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A block chain is a series of blocks. Each block is a series of computations done by computers all over the world using serious cryptography in a way that's very hard to undo.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I believe in the institution of marriage; Other than cinema, it's the only way to be immortalised!
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I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.
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I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.
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We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] spent a lot of time writing, for lack of a better word, this manifesto about what we wanted to do. We wanted to find work that was relevant socially and that didn't take audiences for granted.
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The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.
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We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that goes away and you are left with, God help us, what, indeed, is your essential self?
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Maybe there's even anger. But if they make it through that they come to a new agreement, and they start creating a new culture, and it becomes something that people just - a lot of times they'll say, "I couldn't live without it. I just have to be there."
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I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.
