Joseph Jacobs Quotes
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I've directed independent film.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
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There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so much that whatever makes us laugh really hard makes it into 'Workaholics.' But the characters that I think are funny are guys that are confidently stupid.
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Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.
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Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.
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I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making.
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Surprisingly, it is not like they say: 'In this or in that country', no. There are beautiful women in every country.
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The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
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With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.
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The walls between live-action and animation are becoming really porous, and it's interesting.
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When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.
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We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.
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My mother loved fashion. She was a beauty and had enough sewing skills that she could re-create the looks in magazines. She also was enormously charismatic.
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Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.
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Everything doesn't have to be perfect, I've realised. You can learn as you go.
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Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal 'honor' and court etiquette.
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It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.
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Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.
