Martin Millar Quotes
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As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
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Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
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Birds fly Over The Rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.
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Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.
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I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it.
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Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.
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Disorder makes me feel at ease if I'm alone, embarrassed if I'm not.
