Jemaine Clement Quotes
The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination more and create your own way to make it all make sense.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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If 10 years ago I was told I'd be where I am now, I would've been pretty happy.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.
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I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one. Self complaisance over the concealed destroys its concealment.
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I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.
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I've always wanted to work with Barbra Streisand because she's worked with some of the best background singers in the world who are friends of mine, worked with them in concert or on movie soundtracks, and I always say 'Now, where was I? Where was I when she was hiring people to work with her?'
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Defend my honor - Protect my pride
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What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say
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The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination more and create your own way to make it all make sense.
