Taika Waititi Quotes

Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know.

Taika Waititi

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• Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Thanks
  • Countries
  • Prophet

• Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Today
  • Law
  • Beginning

• The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • War
  • Military

• I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Real

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • You
  • Pain
  • Right

• It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Laughter

• I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Players
  • Rather
  • Tricky

• You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Choose
  • Losing
  • Belt

• Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Life
  • Music
  • Education

• Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Sad

• Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Cool

• I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

  

  Jack Vance

• You don't appreciate home until you leave it and, let me tell you, you can't appreciate life till you've almost left it! Some people hope and die with their song still in them. I used to think that happiness resulted when my earnings matched my yearnings! But not anymore!

  

  Patsy Cline
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Real
  • Money
  • Game

• I originally thought I would be going into wedding dresses. I wanted to create gowns, especially for weddings. I liked the idea of dealing with just one color, and within that, you could design whatever you want.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Design
  • Color
  • Wedding

• I have found I'm leaning toward more vibrant colors because I'm so happy in them.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Happy

• Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've come to realize that 'Avatar's world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.

  

  James Cameron
  • World
  • Writing
  • Experience

• If something I make succeeds, people say it was luck. But I don't just throw myself into the unknown. I research my subjects and listen constantly to what the characters have to say. Luck comes into it, but the story is made by them.

  

  Cosima Spender
  • People
  • Story
  • Luck

• The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Safety
  • Dare

• Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.

  

  Mo Rocca
  • Happens
  • Laughing
  • Wedding

• Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the festivals I've been to. I'm not going to Cannes, you know.

  

  Taika Waititi