Jean-Marc Vallee Quotes
I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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A well begun is half ended.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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Existence is of little interest save on days when the dust of realities is mingled with magic sand.
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I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.
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Art is not imitation but illusion.
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I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.
