Ramin Djawadi Quotes
What's so great with 'Game of Thrones' is that there are so many characters and they're so many locations and that it's just very inspiring.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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All of my characters are less than perfect.
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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
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The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.
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You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
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[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.
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I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.
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Fun is about as good a habit as there is.
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Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.
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Everything I make is with intention. I'm not very haphazard with my artist work, although I wish I was sometimes. I'm very conscious of the conversations I'm pushing about different threads and themes around landscape and characters that exist - how it's pictured, who's pictured it, who's owned it and who's been able to inhabit certain spaces. I have other interests as well. I'm really obsessed now with going to gay male dance clubs. I find those thrilling. I'm interested in what future characters can come.
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... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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Each of my characters comes from somewhere, and where they come from, good or bad, has a large part in forming who they are, and who they can become.
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What Jimmy Page did was pretty inspiring for guitar players. He married a lot of acoustic elements into hard rock. The kind of chords he used were very left of center, with a lot of dissonance - I absorbed that like a sponge. It's all over the music I write, always.
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Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
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Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
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I'm voting for Barack Obama. He's inspiring.
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There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of the most important questions to ask yourself when you begin writing a story is this: Whose story is it? You need to make a commitment to one or perhaps a few characters.
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Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.
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I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.
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I don't miss EastEnders. I did a two-stretch. That was enough.
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"We die," she said, "we die together. That's the deal."
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What's so great with 'Game of Thrones' is that there are so many characters and they're so many locations and that it's just very inspiring.
