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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There are a lot of thought leaders who don't want to see their students. We don't want to hire them. If students are allured to come to the school because of famous faculties, and if they never see them, that leaves very bad taste.
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In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.
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The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that's in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an impact one way or the other.
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My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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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.
