Jenny Han Quotes
It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.
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All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
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I am happy with the response I am receiving for 'Kaabil.' Audiences' love is what we work for, after all.
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Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
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For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.
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When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.
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You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
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If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
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I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.
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So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.
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'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget.
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Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.
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I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger.
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I think so much emphasis these days is placed upon achievement and skill and assessment that the joy has gone out of reading for many kids. Students become distracted by struggling to learn to read or by the pressure to achieve.
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My love life is good, and I feel like part of what's made it good is not talking about it.
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It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.
