Jeff Bridges Quotes
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We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.
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I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.
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I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.
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I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
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This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.
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My website's kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It's kind of fun.
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Often, when I finish a film, I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.'
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I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.
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I wish I were more disciplined.
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I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.
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I like to know where the camera is.
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Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
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I'm kind of an idea guy.
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My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
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It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
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My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.
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Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.
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I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.
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There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.
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What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.
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Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.
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If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.
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I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.
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Like most kids, you don't want to do what your folks want you to do. You've got your own thing.