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 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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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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Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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I feel old films should not be remade.
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Jason glanced at the creature. It remained the same distance away as before, still as a statue. "What do you want?" Jason asked. No answer. "Are you the thing that followed Tark? You should keep following him. He's the real mastermind. Shoo. Go hide." No response. "Okay, how about you stand guard while I sleep. Keep the giants away. Sound good? All in favor, hold perfectly still. Fine, I guess we have a deal.
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
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Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.
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For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized.
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I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?
