Duncan Jones Quotes
That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I love my sleep.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
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I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer.
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Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.
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What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.
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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
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It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.
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The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
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I've seen Coach Saban over the years have to make a lot of tough decisions, and there's not one decision he doesn't make that he doesn't bounce ideas off the staff. To me, that's invaluable.
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That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.
