Stephen Gaghan Quotes
We are living in complex, difficult times and I wanted Syriana to reflect this complexity in a visceral way, to embrace it narratively. There are no good guys and no bad guys and there are no easy answers. The characters do not have traditional character arcs; the stories don't wrap up in neat little life lessons, the questions remain open. The hope was that by not wrapping everything up, the film will get under your skin in a different way and stay with you longer. This seemed like the most honest reflection of this post 9-11 world we all find ourselves in.
Quotes to Explore
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'
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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
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I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.
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I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
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I am a recovering alcoholic.
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I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.
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Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
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There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.
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I never thought that I would get married, but it wound up happening. That was a really, really happy, exciting moment.
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I went to Paris to learn and absorb some of the amazing ambience I was enamored with growing up in Kansas City. I didn't go there to start my own collection. But I never could get an internship, so finally, I was left with just doing my own show.
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We are living in complex, difficult times and I wanted Syriana to reflect this complexity in a visceral way, to embrace it narratively. There are no good guys and no bad guys and there are no easy answers. The characters do not have traditional character arcs; the stories don't wrap up in neat little life lessons, the questions remain open. The hope was that by not wrapping everything up, the film will get under your skin in a different way and stay with you longer. This seemed like the most honest reflection of this post 9-11 world we all find ourselves in.
