Wes Anderson Quotes
Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.
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Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.
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I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
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Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.
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I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.
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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.
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I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.
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My mother, actually, is a therapist.
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You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
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We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it; it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.
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The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.
