Jon Watts Quotes
When you make a movie for a really low budget, it makes you really strict. You have to plan things down to the tiniest detail.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
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I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
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'Triumph over tragedy' - how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I'm multifaceted. You don't hear people saying, 'Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar - and she's blonde!'
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
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Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.
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When you make a movie for a really low budget, it makes you really strict. You have to plan things down to the tiniest detail.
