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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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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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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It's a building with a curious, difficult history that is inexorably linked to the history of Berlin, he said That's very potent. You can't make a show here without some reference to all of that. And it certainly makes a show here so much more interesting.
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Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.'
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What I worry about ultimately is that when we're stripped of our privacy, when we're stripped of free will, when we start to merge with machines in a more robust way, at some point, we'll cease to be identifiably human. And therefore, I think our humanity is, in some ways, the thing that's under existential threat.
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But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.
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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.
