Patty Jenkins Quotes
Movies always had a captive audience, so they were able to do deeper, more complex things. Television was always about, 'Look at me now! Look at me now! Now go away!' That's starting to change.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
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You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
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I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.
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I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.
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Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
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I've soaked up so much through dancing, but I also have to be still. I want to be silent and read, to shut up and take time to respect the vision someone put into a book.
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I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States.
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
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If you agree to do a sex scene, you have to be willing to not be awkward about it. C'mon! I don't think of it as anything other than a dance, really. I don't see that person. I don't think of me being me.
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There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
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France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
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Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.
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I took a page from the playwright Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'
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We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.
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Movies always had a captive audience, so they were able to do deeper, more complex things. Television was always about, 'Look at me now! Look at me now! Now go away!' That's starting to change.
