Jeff Nichols Quotes
I think we're so advanced when it comes to watching narrative material. I mean, it's all we do is consume content all day long. So when a character walks onscreen, you immediately start making connections for that character: Is that a good guy? Is that a bad guy?

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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.
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More than any other issue, economists have kind of been boosters for trade.
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Dogs are a window on the natural world.
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As a kid, I can't remember having anything to play with except a loose tooth. And that wasn't mine. It was my brother's.
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It's one of my government's ambitions to secure a seat for Ireland on the U.N. Security Council so that we can play an even greater role in international affairs and try to build what we all believe in, which is a world of laws.
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I think we're so advanced when it comes to watching narrative material. I mean, it's all we do is consume content all day long. So when a character walks onscreen, you immediately start making connections for that character: Is that a good guy? Is that a bad guy?