Jonathan Levine Quotes
'Warm Bodies' - I was contractually obligated to deliver a PG-13 movie. But, like, I wanted it to be PG-13 because it's for younger people, and I don't want them not to be able to see it. I mean, you have to kind of think about the marketplace as well.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.
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FaceTime is a life saver for relationships and for family.
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We tend to intensely scout an area and then use our imaginations to make the best use of the geography.
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People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.
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'Warm Bodies' - I was contractually obligated to deliver a PG-13 movie. But, like, I wanted it to be PG-13 because it's for younger people, and I don't want them not to be able to see it. I mean, you have to kind of think about the marketplace as well.
