Jose Padilha Quotes
Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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Working on 'X Men,' I got to do a lot of flying and fighting, which was good fun.
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If 'The Blacklist' taught me anything, it was kind of open-ended intrigue and leaving questions unanswered. Creating this kind of mystery by virtue of depriving the audience of these easy answers was what I was kind of into.
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I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4.
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I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.
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Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.
