Alex Abreu Quotes
During the entire process of making this film I never thought about whom I was making it for. I always thought that the film was for me, but I didn't think of any of that. I just did what I thought I had to do. I didn't think, "This is what children are going to think" or "This is what adults will understand."
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.
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Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.
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I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.
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Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about.
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I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.
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[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".
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When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to our pain that turns it into suffering.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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During the entire process of making this film I never thought about whom I was making it for. I always thought that the film was for me, but I didn't think of any of that. I just did what I thought I had to do. I didn't think, "This is what children are going to think" or "This is what adults will understand."
