Wes Anderson Quotes
You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
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I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
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Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point, and then everything resonates. But initially, it takes a tremendous amount of energy. You just hope it's gonna be okay and you don't forget your lines and those cameras.
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There are two types of conductors. One is the good conductor who can do passionate music but also listen to the singers and do the orchestra. And then there are great conductors, who have their own opinion on the music, who are ruling everything - and not listening much to the singers, but the orchestra play amazingly.
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I was sort of a loner as a kid, so radio was where I turned for companionship. I loved the music and how the DJs talked about the artists and used words to paint pictures to evoke emotion.
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I love getting oxygen facials because I travel a lot. My skin gets pretty dry with all the airplanes.
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You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.
