Jason Silva Quotes
I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.
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Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.
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Having an infant is difficult. It's a lot of work, and I didn't hire any help because I overestimated my own abilities.
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One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.
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Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.
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I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.
