Peyton Reed Quotes
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.
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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.
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Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
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I don't know much about my biological background.
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I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.
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Little did he know what was going on behind the scenes.
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Behind the scenes there is a secretive, undeclared war of revenge that's already under way.
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Navigating with a partner makes it half as difficult. We keep each other in check. It's not like she [Angie Marr] was ever a quiet little wifey wife behind the scenes. She's exactly like me. She's very smart. We're very lucky that we've always wanted the same things. She loves guitar music, she loves important records, and our lives are about records and shows and great bands.
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I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.
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For me, my storyline in Big Little Lies is very complicated and nuanced. The script was so beautifully written. It was very, very easy to play. ... I think one of the scenes is almost eight minutes.
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I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.
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Radio Astronomy has added greatly to our understanding of the structure and dynamics of the universe. The cosmic microwave background radiation, considered a relic of the explosion at the beginning of the universe some 18 billion years ago, is one of the most powerful aids in determining these features of the universe.
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I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.
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I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?' But it's so exhausting, you can't be 'on' 12-14 hours a day.
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Sometimes maybe it's good to have someone doing a sci-fi show who's not actually necessarily from that background. It also means that sometimes I fall into the most elementary of traps.
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Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.
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A hundred starlings let loose in Central Park have by now multiplied to more than two hundred million.
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I think you're only as good as the work that you do.
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It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.
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I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.
