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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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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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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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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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 have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.
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I don't want to be Batman. Let Val Kilmer do it. I just want to be Uncle Batman. I have this whole 'warm relationship' plot in my mind. In the final scenes, the new Batmobile breaks down, the new Batman's stranded on the side of the road. We grab our old Batmobile, pick him up and drive away.
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The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.
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We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.
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I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
