Joseph Kosinski Quotes
There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
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Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs.
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I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.
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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.
