Jean-Marc Vallee Quotes
It can be a machine. The machine tries to make money and forget about the heart and the art. Hollywood is more about making money.
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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You have to open up on stage.
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I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.
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I've definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don't understand the schedule, and it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's that sometimes I am really busy and can't get back to them.
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I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.
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Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.
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O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven
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It can be a machine. The machine tries to make money and forget about the heart and the art. Hollywood is more about making money.
