Emmanuel Lubezki Quotes
I have a very healthy dream life. I dream a lot many, many, many nights a week. When I'm shooting, it's even more - I don't know if it has to do with stress or with creation.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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Well, it was a church person in the early days, Mahalia Jackson. And Rosetta Tharpe. These spiritual, very strong voices. I only knew that they were figures in the black race, recognizable and respected. But I must admit, I've always covered the songs of males. I haven't followed up on women or listened to that much women's music.
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I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives.
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I love filming in London. In New York, every street is familiar because you have seen it in a movie. They mythologise their own city. You're forever trying to get down streets that have been blocked off because of shooting. In London, they don't put up with it; they're grumpy.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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I have a very healthy dream life. I dream a lot many, many, many nights a week. When I'm shooting, it's even more - I don't know if it has to do with stress or with creation.
