Quentin Dupieux (Mr. Oizo) Quotes
I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?
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We only got clothing once a year, like, right before school began. It's like, that's when you got your clothing.
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The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.
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Me and my son got pictures on the Batmobile. I'm a big kid.
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I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting.
