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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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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This dark diction has become America's addiction.
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One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.
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I remember Steven Tyler coming up to me once. He was like, 'Oh my god, you have a God given talent,' and I freaked out. He's so sweet.
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You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.
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Your brain is not designed to make you happy. That's your job!
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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.
