Jean-Marc Vallee Quotes
I love actors, and I love projects that give them space and room, and I aim for these projects where the characters are that important.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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I actually think looking to the past for inspiration is pretty redundant.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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When it hurts to look back, and you're afraid to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
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I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.
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I love actors, and I love projects that give them space and room, and I aim for these projects where the characters are that important.
