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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One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.
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The endless teen franchises that come out of Hollywood... more often than not, the central character doesn't have any discernible character traits. They're just the young, good-looking guy who goes on this journey. They're always played by fantastic young actors, but ultimately, they're not very interesting characters.
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It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.
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When I got to college, I used to run on top of everything else, because when you gain weight in swimming, you have to do something else, like bike or run, to maintain the weight or take the weight off.
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You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot always means something other than what it is. All are vehicles. A landscape is just a vehicle. The viewer might think different things, and I'm not going to intervene.
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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.
