Gary Hume Quotes
I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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You've been vilified, used as fodder, you deserve a piece of every record.
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My solo series, in some ways, have been rarely truly solo.
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I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them.
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We signed to play until the day we died, and we did.
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It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture came under this absurd cloud of controversy. Here was a movie based on the central theme that racism is something that is taught, and it's illustrated by this story of a dog and the efforts of humans to re-train it after it had been trained to go after black people. And it created this ridiculous controversy and wound up being the last Hollywood movie that Sam [Fuller] made.
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I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.
