Dan Gilroy Quotes
I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.
Quotes to Explore
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.
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The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.
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'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.
