Jacques Audiard Quotes
Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.
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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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I am trying every genre.
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My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.
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Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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Another friend began to say, 'Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he...' This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, 'I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him.'
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From the development of the textile loom two centuries ago to today's Internet, output per hour has increased fifty fold.
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I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
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Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'
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I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.
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In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
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Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
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Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.
