James Wan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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In my personal life, I really like the look of vests. I wear fitted, business ones, and perfectly preppy sweater vests that I can knit myself.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
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Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
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While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
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I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career. Whatever I am today is due to the values my mother instilled in me.
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Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.
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People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'
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We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.
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We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!
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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement.
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You can only go by the instinct that you have.
