Jon Watts Quotes
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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People come up and say, 'Hey, I know you!' They're middle-aged women and big burly guys. They say, 'Don't tell anyone, but I watch Felicity, and I think it's great.'
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.
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'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.
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I think of myself as an actor and not a movie star. I like doing movies; I enjoy it. But, essentially, I'm a theater actor. That's the only place I feel like I actually am a star. In the theater, I can put people in the seats and sell tickets.
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I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.
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I think 'Badlands' is my favorite movie because it reminded me of where I was from.
