John Curran Quotes
The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed.
Quotes to Explore
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.
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For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.
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In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'
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Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.
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I always liked spy stories.
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I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.
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At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
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As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart - I don't know, ageless!
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
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I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
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You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.
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Most people say they're slaves, but in my opinion, to say that I am a slave is to take ownership of actually being a slave - to be a tool, be a thing. Basically cattle.
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As a CEO, you have to take the active action to force most of your resources to stand idle from time to time - or go bankrupt.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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In America, when you hear about the Underground Railroad, it's so evocative. You think it's a literal subway for a few minutes before your teacher goes on and describes where it actually was.
Colson Whitehead -
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
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The worst thing for a filmmaker is for a film to be labeled as pretentious or heavy-handed.
