Jose Padilha Quotes
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I had a pretty modest upbringing; it was no pleasure cruise. I don't think I would be as happy today if I hadn't been through that. It was tough; I made some bad choices myself.
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I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful... with real birds.
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A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
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I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
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My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.
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Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
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Cosplayers love Disney princesses. We all grew up with them. We identify with one or more princesses.
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I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films.
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Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.
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You can't satisfy everybody. I will continue to do my job until I get fired, and the only people who can fire me are my fans.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Can one move an empire as if it were a house?
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I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.
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I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?
