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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The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows.
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It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
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The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.
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I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.
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The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
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It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.
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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.
