Christopher Meledandri Quotes
No matter what happens with technology or whether you're in traditional animation or stop-motion or CG, the biggest challenge always is story. The flow of making the movie is usually determined by how your story is coming together, and when your story is straining and you can't quite get your hands around it, your entire production is straining.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
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Although I am a Christian, I am not even close to perfect.
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I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.
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Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
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They say Mars absolves the warrior from the crimes of war, but those who were not the warriors, those for whom the war was said to be fought, even though they never wanted it to be fought, who absolves them?
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The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.
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I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
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I was good. I probably could have gone to the NFL. I just hated practice.
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This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.
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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
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Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
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Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.
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No matter what happens with technology or whether you're in traditional animation or stop-motion or CG, the biggest challenge always is story. The flow of making the movie is usually determined by how your story is coming together, and when your story is straining and you can't quite get your hands around it, your entire production is straining.
