James Wan Quotes
'Saw,' in many ways, was like my student film. The first crappy student film you don't really want people to see.
Quotes to Explore
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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39: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
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In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
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Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
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'Saw,' in many ways, was like my student film. The first crappy student film you don't really want people to see.
