Jeffrey Kluger Quotes
You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you on the phone. Nothing personal, I just can't stand the thing. I find it intrusive and somehow presumptuous. It sounds off insolently whenever it chooses and expects me to drop whatever I'm doing and, well, engage. With others!
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.
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They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.
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I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.
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You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.
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If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.
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You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.
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I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.
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I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.
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When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.
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If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
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You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you on the phone. Nothing personal, I just can't stand the thing. I find it intrusive and somehow presumptuous. It sounds off insolently whenever it chooses and expects me to drop whatever I'm doing and, well, engage. With others!
