Saoirse Ronan Quotes
There's so many modern films where the fans take one side or the other. I'm hoping this isn't going to be like that; I'm hoping it isn't that kind of film at all. What I would love for the audience to take from it is to understand why she was so stuck in the middle and confused.
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.
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The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.
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A big factor is that the enthusiast camp's values are really rooted in Silicon Valley and in these supposedly new business models. But again, I think this such an interesting moment because things like the NSA revelations are really forcing people to recognize the connections between corporate and government surveillance.
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There's so many modern films where the fans take one side or the other. I'm hoping this isn't going to be like that; I'm hoping it isn't that kind of film at all. What I would love for the audience to take from it is to understand why she was so stuck in the middle and confused.
