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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.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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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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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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As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager.
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America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid.
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You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.
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The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.
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The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.
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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.
