Duncan Jones Quotes
You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
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I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I love to be surrounded by nature.
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People don't like the same thing. You have to keep their attention.
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You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
