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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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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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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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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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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.
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The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.
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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.
