Jay DeMarcus Quotes
I was an '80s child, so I grew up loving all kinds of '80s rock. I like R&B, too.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.
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I don't teach my students, I provide the circumstances in which they can learn.
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I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.
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My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.
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You've got to set a tone early. We didn't set that tone early last year and it lasted the whole year.
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I was an '80s child, so I grew up loving all kinds of '80s rock. I like R&B, too.
