Andre Ovredal Quotes
To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one thing.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
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An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
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We've got a second amendment right. I think some people forget that.
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I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
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We petitioned to get access to film Suffragette at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed in, as this is the first ever commercial film to shoot there.
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To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one thing.
