Helio Castroneves (Hélio Castro-Neves) Quotes
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
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I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
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I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.
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I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.
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I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.
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We can have all of the best ideas in the world, but if we do not have a system to get our tasks completed, we will fail.
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I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.
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My family had to flee Iran... the revolution, and we were very, very lucky to come to America and have opportunities presented to us. And that's... one of the things that makes America great.
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Paul Dana, you're in our hearts. You're family.
