Jon Watts Quotes
Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
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People have to evolve.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
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Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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I did a movie with Christopher Reeve when I first came to L.A. called 'Switching Channels.' I asked him if it was weird to be Superman. He said, 'You know, George, I've fought against this whole Superman thing, but one day I realized, 'Hey, I'm Superman.'' So, at some point, I just started saying, 'Good for me, I'm Bryan MacKenzie.'
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The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.
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Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.
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Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.
