Jeff Nichols Quotes
It took me a year just to edit 'Shotgun Stories.' Actually, it took me two years to edit 'Shotgun Stories.'
Quotes to Explore
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.
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Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
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I learned at an early age that using the third person will push some buttons.
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What happened on 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith,' I was given a big budget and given too many choices, and I made a lot of mistakes and missteps early on until I squandered all that extra money. But then, once my back was up against the wall, I made what I consider a really good movie.
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As I'm sure anyone who's born after the '70s' access point is - is '70s films and '70s culture and there is a kind of a paranoiac atmosphere in that time in America. Yes, it's the golden age of journalism, Watergate, and all the rest of these people making these great breakthroughs - but it's also the moment that "if it bleeds, it leads" becomes mainstream and sensationalizing the news becomes more and more the given. Checking how many numbers you're getting, whatever you can do to get more numbers.
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It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
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It took me a year just to edit 'Shotgun Stories.' Actually, it took me two years to edit 'Shotgun Stories.'
