Jonás Cuarón Quotes
In college, when a girlfriend asks you to watch a film in black and white, you do it. That's when I discovered a lot of films. I was really obsessed with Bergman, the whole world he creates. One that I always quote a lot is 'Autumn Sonata.' When you see women go through issues with their mom, you realize how right and poignant Bergman was.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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I am a Buddhist.
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.
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There are literally a thousand works with the title Malcolm X in them. There are over 350 films and over 320 web-based educational resources with the title Malcolm X, yet the vast majority of them are based on secondary literatures, that is, not on primary source material.
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I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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In college, when a girlfriend asks you to watch a film in black and white, you do it. That's when I discovered a lot of films. I was really obsessed with Bergman, the whole world he creates. One that I always quote a lot is 'Autumn Sonata.' When you see women go through issues with their mom, you realize how right and poignant Bergman was.
