John Callen Quotes
I'm in love with the entire industry and every aspect of performing and directing, even writing, and I love working with acting students.
Quotes to Explore
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To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
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'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.
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I'm in love with the entire industry and every aspect of performing and directing, even writing, and I love working with acting students.
