Josh Trank (Joshua Benjamin Trank) Quotes
There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.
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I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
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The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.
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A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
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Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you know, damning and demeaning to having any kind of ideology than people just walking the walk and saying what they're supposed to say and nodding, and nobody feels anything.
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Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.
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In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
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My favorite thing about working with Lady Gaga is really just the sheer level of creativity she brings to the table. And she's really one of the most intelligent people I've ever known. Her intelligence is equaled by her heart.
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The thing about being a university teacher is that you're fairly tolerant about young people saying things they shouldn't have said.
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If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.
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I left high school very early. I was 17. So I guess it wasn't that early, but I did not get a high school education.
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The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.
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And like a 'Fuck You' for Christmas, his gift is a curse.
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There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
