Jon Watts Quotes
There was a time when I just loved 'Indiana Jones' so much. I was in fourth or fifth grade, and I wore a fedora like that one to school every day. It was so dumb.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I think each film I do has less and less dialogue. It really helps a lot for foreign sales, because when I go to Europe, there's very little problem with communication. All the gags are visual. The music they can understand, and it helps communicate a lot better.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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You can only sleep your way to the middle; you have to claw your way to the top.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.
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There was a time when I just loved 'Indiana Jones' so much. I was in fourth or fifth grade, and I wore a fedora like that one to school every day. It was so dumb.
