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 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 think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.
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Everybody either hates or loves John Cena; there's no medium. I feel like that I've accomplished something when I get people to cheer for John Cena. I feel like I've done something.
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I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'
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Coming from losing my dream of playing professional football, not having a college degree at the time and looking to jump into the business world at a young age was pretty daunting for me.
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I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.
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The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.
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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.
