Jay Roach Quotes
My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.
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I grew up on films.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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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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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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I love working with women.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.
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I've never had anyone just stick their hands through my hair. Yet. If they ask, I go, 'OK, you can, if you want to. It's probably just going to feel like most people's.' I take it as a compliment.
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I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.
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I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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I'm not a big movie-goer. I just feel like I'm watching work.
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My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.
