George C. Wolfe Quotes
I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it's a chance for me as a director to figure out what I'm thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.
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In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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If people really, really like what we make, 10 minutes after we upload it, we start thinking about new videos.
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I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it's a chance for me as a director to figure out what I'm thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated.
