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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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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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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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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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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But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.
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I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.
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When a chainsaw rips into a 2,000 year old redwood tree, it's ripping into my guts. When a bulldozer plows through the Amazon rainforest, it's ripping through my side. And when a Japanese whaling ship fires an exploding harpoon into a great whale it's my heart that's being blown to smithereens.
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Making films can be very lonely, and that's the part I don't like. I don't want to feel like I'm pressing 'pause' on my personal life to make a movie. I want to feel like I'm still creating relationships and things are moving forward.
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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.
