Michael Lehmann Quotes
A movie as specific as 'Heathers,' which took place in a specific time and specific place and in which many of the characters got killed off, I never thought it made sense to see a sequel.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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I never do anything out of my comfort zone.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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No, I never ever considered myself attractive.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
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My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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Israel never targets civilians deliberately, period.
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The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.
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You never know how much time you got.
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What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
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I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' and had to wear one of those frocks and... I didn't feel very comfortable.
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I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.
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And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
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We've all done things we shouldn't, it's just I did stuff at college, when nobody knew about it, so I'm not a saint. … I wasted time doing self-destructive things but it didn't work. I found out you can only dance on so many tabletops. I got that all out of my system and now I'm healthy and I'm grounded.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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A movie as specific as 'Heathers,' which took place in a specific time and specific place and in which many of the characters got killed off, I never thought it made sense to see a sequel.
