James Wan Quotes
I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy.
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I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
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Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.
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You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.
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Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.
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I joke and I say, 'I need to go back to make a supernatural horror film just to so that I can make a movie that's grounded again.'
