Reed Morano Quotes
I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents.
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The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
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I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?'
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In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
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I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
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In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
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I like James Franco. I think he's really cute. I remember a while ago there was a rumor going around that he was getting married and all my friends and I were freaking out. Yeah, I think he's cute!
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For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like you went to France for August, fell in love, got hurt, broke up, grew up, and figured some things out - all in 90 minutes or so. My favorite of Rohmer's cinematic escapes is 'La Collectionneuse.'
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.
