Emir Kusturica Quotes
The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.
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In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.
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There was a three hour differential in performances because the sponsor insisted it be done live for California. You would go on at 8 pm in New York but you would also have to go on at 8 p.m. in California. That meant coming back in to do the show at 11 p.m.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.
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The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written.
