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 propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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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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The steel business is a local business. We do believe in the U.S. economy and would like to have a strong, balanced presence here.
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It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.
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My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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By people getting together and celebrating this idea of togetherness, great things can happen.
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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.
