Jeremy Collier Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.
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In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.
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“The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.”
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As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
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There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.
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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
