Paul Haggis Quotes
You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.
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Twitter's more fast-paced. Instagram, it's more, like, lifestyle and posting very specific, cool pictures.
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I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.
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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
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I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
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I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.
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Being sexy is something inside, and not everybody has it.
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The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"
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Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.
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All the names of the new and certain dead were falling out of the air like little 4-D scabs the TV weathermen mistook as hail. Each house ever had a number you could use to speak into it, and so often I would use the phone inside my brain to call these people I’d soon visit and just sit there breathing my dinner into their head.
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The key to success is to find things that you have a passion for and would enjoy doing, even if you weren't getting paid to do it.
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I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.
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You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.
