Dominik Garcia-Lorido Quotes
The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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I watch a lot of football.
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You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.
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I've always been active - outdoors, on the beach, playing - and so to go home and have to sit on my couch and relax... it's frustrating. Sometimes, you just have to really shut yourself down.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
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Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
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There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.
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I never thought in terms of a "breakthrough" film. I wasn't looking for fame or a career path into Hollywood. I was doing it for myself. I just wanted to make a film that I really loved. If other people liked it, great. But you can never guess what other people are going to like.
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I started writing more with my voice in mind.
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How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?
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The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor.
