Morten Tyldum Quotes

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

Morten Tyldum

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• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• 'Pyrapshere' began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called 'A Pretty Good Show.' My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.

  

  Maggie Rowe
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• My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

  

  Mallory Jansen
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• I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.

  

  Zach Cregger
  • Work
  • Real
  • Home

• Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Real
  • Control
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• Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
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• When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Moments
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  • Challenge

• There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

  

  J. C. Chandor
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• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Life
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  • Love

• Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.

  

  Nancy Kress
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  • Story

• The flaws, the mistakes I make – that's the real me.

  

  Nas
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• What second love could she Olympias make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Women
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  • Wife

• The whole business is a gamble. There's no real stability, you're kind of just floating around like a feather your whole life.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Life
  • Real
  • Business

• However, I am no big fan of Smalltalk either, even though it compares very favourably with most programming systems today (I don’t like any of them, and I don’t think any of them are suitable for the real programming problems of today, whether for systems or for end-users).

  

  Alan Kay
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• This inner revolution is realistic because it maintains itself deliberately within the framework of existing institutions; the oppressed reckon with the real situation.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
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• In the real world, answers may not be clear cut. There will be messy choices, and you're not going to be able to construct a policy response in a neat and tidy way. Being able to listen to other people, even as you stay true to your principles, that's how you actually succeed.

  

  Jake Sullivan
  • People
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• Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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• I like to write about real-life topics, and I like to write about different walks of life.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Life
  • Different
  • Real

• Certainly Microsoft is going to be a big force in collaboration applications and we are working with them in that area. But in terms of real-time voice and video-based collaboration, where you have to deal with all the issues associated with a pleasant and easy experience with voice and with video, we think that takes a systems company not just a software company to do it right.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Time
  • Real
  • Experience

• My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Family
  • Together
  • House

• He disagreed with something that ate him.

  

  Ian Fleming

• I have always loved young women for their sensitive spiritual nature, gentleness, and special beauty.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Spiritual

• Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

  

  Morten Tyldum
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