Taika Waititi Quotes
Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.
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I just suddenly thought, people really get off on being scared. They pay money to see green foam come out of people's mouths.
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I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.
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If I'm honest, I suppose there's something I don't want people to see in my eyes. They really are the window to the soul.
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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
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Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not.
