Jean-Marc Vallee Quotes
I was supposed to do only one or two episodes of 'Big Little Lies,' but I realized I couldn't just step away.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never left doo wop.
-
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
-
In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, 'Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.'
-
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
-
D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
-
The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
-
Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
-
One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
-
Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
-
I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
-
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
-
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
-
Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.
-
I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.
-
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
-
I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
-
I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
-
I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
-
There are writers' rooms that will write episodes all together, who will break into little groups and write certain scenes. Everyone's process can be a little bit malleable. Everyone tries to get into a groove or find what works for their room.
-
I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It's less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it's more about challenging myself to keep this level up.
-
Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
-
I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
-
My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.
-
I was supposed to do only one or two episodes of 'Big Little Lies,' but I realized I couldn't just step away.
