Dan Gilroy Quotes
I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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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've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.
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I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.
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With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film.
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Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.
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I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
