Steven Strait Quotes
I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.
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Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.
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I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
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I think that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.
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I was not interested by cinema when I was young.
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Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.
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You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.
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You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
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The reality is that each movie has got to be seen in its own light.
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In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for that.
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I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half Japanese at heart.
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I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.
