Olivier Dahan Quotes
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.
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I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
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I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.
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I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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I want to prove to people that every single business can be reinvented and fixed. And I want to prove to myself that I'm good at it.
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Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
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I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
