Jean-Marc Vallee Quotes
As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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Haredi youth are smart, and they are going to bring a big benefit to the high-tech industry.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
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As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
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It's like, backstage at 'SNL,' like, if you come back after a show or something, or a lot of times even at the after-parties, we're just pretty tired and like, 'Hey, what's up.' Just getting a drink and kind of chilling out. Nothing crazy.
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But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
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Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.
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Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
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You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.
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Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.
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I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
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As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.
