Fede Alvarez Quotes
As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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I get really nervous when people are like, 'I saw you in a trailer! I saw you on TV!' Genuinely, my cheeks get red.
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.
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Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
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Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.
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No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
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For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
