Jeff Nichols Quotes
We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.
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I didn't want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.
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You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.
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'Santa Monica' was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But it's not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.
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My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
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It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.
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We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.
