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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'In the short time I've known you, Richard, I've noticed you possess a lamentable tendency to put on shining armor and look for ladies to rescue. King Arthur, God rest his soul, would have loved you. He'd have had you fighting every evil knight in the forest.'
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People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often...
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I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.
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I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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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.
