Damien Chazelle Quotes
I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary Poppins,' lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer.
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Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.
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I think it's important to raise your kids, start 'em early. Teaching them the values and morals, so when they get out there on their own, you know they have it. They just have to remember to use it, but they have it.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.
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I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.
