James Watkins Quotes
As a screenwriter, you are so used to things going in directions that you wouldn't have taken, so to be able to say, 'This is how I intended it, this is how I want to shoot it, and these are the decisions that I'll live by,' I think directing is a logical conclusion of mine.
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
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Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!
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I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.
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My favorite movie is 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.'
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You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
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I think I am naturally attracted to things that are a little bit out of this world.
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As a screenwriter, you are so used to things going in directions that you wouldn't have taken, so to be able to say, 'This is how I intended it, this is how I want to shoot it, and these are the decisions that I'll live by,' I think directing is a logical conclusion of mine.
