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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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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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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People want me to run for president all the time … I don’t like it. Can you imagine how controversial I’d be? You think about Bill Clinton and the women. How about me with the women? Can you imagine?
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I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.
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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.
