Cate Shortland Quotes
I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
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My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
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I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.
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I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
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I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
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There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
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Plays are definitely the most difficult of them all. They are entirely a different category altogether. I don't have the courage to try out plays.
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Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.
