Douglas Trumbull Quotes
When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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My husband works in the music industry and he's always the first to know about great new bands, so I end up seeming really with it because I'll be listening to an up-and-coming band before everyone else hears about it.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.
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It has nothing to do with age, ... I think it has to do with the makeup of the person.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.
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When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.
