Abdellatif Kechiche Quotes
To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
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I used to think that, by the 21st century, cars would run on electricity rather than gasoline and would have guidance systems so that they actually drove themselves. Specially equipped roadways would transmit instructions to the cars, telling them where to go and how fast. I figured this would be in the lines painted on the roads.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
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Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.
