Gabriel Mann Quotes
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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When I first started out, they were like, 'Is there anybody that you like that you want to work with, and we'll see what we can do?' And I went, 'I like Malay,' who's Frank Ocean's producer, and they were like, 'Not going to happen.' It did seem so, like, high-in-the-sky sort of thing, do you know what I mean? It still does, that it happened.
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I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
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If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
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People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
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I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.
