Evan Dando Quotes
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
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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 write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
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I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
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As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.
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Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.
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Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
