Catherine Hardwicke (Helen Catherine Hardwicke) Quotes

I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself.

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• There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

  

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• I am a Buddhist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

  

  Edith Wharton
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• It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

  

  Jack Black
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• The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

  

  Sam Simon
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• I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
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• I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.

  

  Kate Burton
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• Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

  

  Tacitus
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• It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• Offence is no longer defence - it's a full-time profession. Everyone is so offended all the time. The new police force that we weren't told about: the moral police. No qualifications, no training, no understanding of actual morality, but they have a degree in the art of being offended.

  

  Karan Johar
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• I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

  

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• Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton are among my favorite actors.

  

  Vance Joy
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• When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of just about anything. If you don't feel like going to a dinner party, you could say, 'My kid's sick. I can't make it.' Who's gonna argue with you?

  

  Kevin Nealon
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• I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.

  

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• I'm proud of Lord of the Rings. I think it's a once in a lifetime role, and a once in a lifetime film. It was made with so much care and passion and meticulous detail and everybody was so behind it.

  

  Sean Bean
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• When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.

  

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• As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
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• The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

  

  Michael Caine
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• I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Interesting
  • Film
  • Students