Michael B. Jordan Quotes
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
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I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.
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The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
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Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a risk to humanity of a 'Terminator' scenario or anything of the sort.
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I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest.
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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
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Ancient science had sought knowledge of what things are, to be contemplated as an end in itself satisfying to the knower. In contrast, modern science seeks knowledge of how things work, to be used as a means for the relief and comfort of all humanity, knowers and non-knowers alike.
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The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.
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As chief scientist, it's sort of my job to look at bridges between what we do and to see the connections. But when we try to understand how are planets around other stars habitable... to looking back at the Earth - how are the changes that are taking place, how are they going to affect humanity?
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The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.
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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.
