Jonathan Levine Quotes
I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.
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You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.
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I'm very successful and do lots of films but I've never actually done anything extraordinary.
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I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
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Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.
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The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
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It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
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In high school I was president of the Student Council, and I ended up doing a lot of speeches. After you do a few in front of different schools, you get really comfortable talking in front of an audience.
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Whenever we had career day at elementary school, and we could dress up like what you wanted to be, when I got on stage, mine was playing major league baseball.
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My generation feels it has been lied to a great deal.
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Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.
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Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
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Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.
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White artists have made millions of dollars off music they stole from black artists. I don't blame all the white artists. I'm a huge Stevie Ray Vaughn fan, and he was always very gracious about where he learned his music. But a lot of the time, you'd think the white guys thought it up. Hey, hasn't anyone heard of Muddy Waters?
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I love subverting expectations or playing with the sort of unspoken kind of connections that the audience has.
