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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• For me, family has always come first.

  

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• Either war is obsolete, or men are.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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• It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

  

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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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• 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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• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  

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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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• The summer before I started college, my parents walked everywhere instead of taking the bus. Once a week, they would hand over $10 to the university housing office, a deposit so I could move into the dorms in the fall.

  

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• I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

  

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• Oh, the tragedy and the anguish. You just gotta Rage Against the Appliance, man. The toast is burning and you just gotta rip it out and free it before it fills the house with smoke. Rage Against the Toaster.

  

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• In contrast to our sinking taste, there has been a revival of interest in verse drama in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. The movement has been slow but sure and, above all, modest in its demands.

  

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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.

  

  Jon Watts
  • Movie