John Knoll Quotes
You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as I'm allowed to.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
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I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
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Young Indians are energetic and ambitious, have lots of ideas. They work around the difficult situation they face here. But the big challenge is to market products and services to the West, because costs there aren't coming down.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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By nature I mean here, like the naïvest realist, a composite of perceiver and perceived, not a datum, an experience. All I wish to suggest is that the tendency and accomplishment of this painting are fundamentally those of previous painting, straining to enlarge the statement of a compromise.
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I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.
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Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
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One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
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A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
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I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world.
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When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can get your ideas across without worrying.
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Bernard Leach talked about painting, but we never talked about ceramics in that evening. But at the end of the evening he said to us, "Well," he said, "I've changed my mind, and if you want, you can come back a year from now and apprentice in the workshop."
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You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as I'm allowed to.
