Fede Alvarez Quotes
'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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You can't do anything to a film post its release. I concentrate on working hard, giving the required inputs for the roles, having discussions with my directors and co-stars. It isn't possible to predict the fate of any film. I don't take failures to heart and successes to my head. These are part and parcel of this career.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
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God doesn't want you to go to church. He wants you to want to go to church.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
