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		Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tom Hanks 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Olivia Wilde 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				G-Eazy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nat Wolff 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dakota Fanning 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's always weird when you see a movie, and there's no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that... But if it came organically, I would grab that mike and jump on stage for sure. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Quentin Tarantino 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Mendes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dana Delany 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salman Rushdie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collaborations between directors, writers, actors, even producers. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Naifeh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Orson Welles 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fede Alvarez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yo-Yo Ma 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dakota Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The experience I had seeing Star Wars for the first time was mind-blowing. Eleven is a great age to have your mind blown. I will never forget that feeling of seeing 'Long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away' fade out. It was the first time a movie made me believe in another world that way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. J. Abrams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails. More books and less guns. More learning and less vice. More leisure and less greed. More justice and less revenge. We want more … opportunities to cultivate our better natures. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Gompers 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		While I thought I have been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Leonardo da Vinci 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I'm not a huge scary movie kind of guy; like, I don't do slasher movies, because I'm really squeamish. But if I had to pick a favorite, it would definitely be 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson. Not only is that a scary movie, it's just a flat out classic. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brendan Robinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carl Sandburg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Marc Newson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Claude Adrien Helvetius 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I speak, my Urdu isn’t very good but when I sing I make sure there are no flaws in my diction. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lata Mangeshkar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tom Hanks