Andrew Niccol Quotes
I have so much to grapple with, I don't think too much about me. People call it the "dance of a thousand egos" when you make a movie. If only I had time to worry when I was making a movie about what the hell I was doing. It's sort of a marathon every day. And then at the end of it, you beg the producers for five more marathons.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
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She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.
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Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.
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Sadat made us feel more secure.
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I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.
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I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.
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I don't really care about having more fame than I have.
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I'm just trying to write things that resonate with people. And when we're all going through something together, I think you smile after that - I hope that people leave inspired after one of my shows.
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The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.
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When you think someone really has the upper hand, you realize that someone has been played the entire time, and there's a whole other layer where you think the person who is doing the playing has also been played.
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This is the world we live in, isn't it? Tons of spin-offs; people reboot things very quickly. I was amazed how quickly they made a Wolverine movie, then, 'Let's do another origins Wolverine movie.'
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Augmenting your appearance so drastically that it elicits a reaction from literally every acquaintance you greet is a sea change.
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Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
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I have so much to grapple with, I don't think too much about me. People call it the "dance of a thousand egos" when you make a movie. If only I had time to worry when I was making a movie about what the hell I was doing. It's sort of a marathon every day. And then at the end of it, you beg the producers for five more marathons.
