Jon Favreau Quotes
'King Kong,' especially the first two acts of it, is a really good example of the use of miniatures mixed with digital characters and how convincing it was.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
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Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear.'
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To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.
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I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.
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TV's been good to me.
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I think there's so much that is out of our control as actors, and it's just really hard to market yourself in such a huge industry.
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'King Kong,' especially the first two acts of it, is a really good example of the use of miniatures mixed with digital characters and how convincing it was.
