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'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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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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We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.
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My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten about. Celebrity endorsement deals try to gain recognition for brands, but at their core, what matters is if the celebrity truly backs the brand.
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I think the success of a film is very important to an actor. It depends on how many people go to watch your movies; the more the merrier. Nobody wants to do a film for five people. You work so hard that millions of people watch the movie; this is directly related to box office success.
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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.
