Jose Padilha Quotes
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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Actors are a race.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me.
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I'm interested in Patti Smith and women who were iconic in a very hedonistic way.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.
