Joseph Kosinski Quotes
I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I'm going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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Ted Cruz ,when he was running for president, was a huge 'Princess Bride' fan. He would quote the lines and, you know, trying to win families and everything.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
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It's always good to be working.
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Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for me.
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Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.
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I've begun to believe more and more that movies are all about transitions, that the key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes. And not just how you get from one scene to the next, but where you leave a scene and where you come into a new scene. Those are some of the most important decisions that you make. It can be the difference between a movie that works and a movie that doesn't.
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I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.
