Christopher Meledandri Quotes
We in Illumination Entertainment tend not to put ideas through a brand funnel. We've collected a group of people who share a certain taste, and that is connected to our aspirations for our brand. We pride ourselves on making character-centric movies. If I had to say what's the most important thing this company does, it's creating characters that stay with the audience long after they leave the theater.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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I take my work seriously.
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I don't have time to be that girl who does the super workout. But I try to be as fit as possible, given my schedule. Even if I do 20 minutes a day, it's better than nothing.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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Fundamentally, we have broken our aerospace business into three parts - large parts which go into the wings and fuselage, components for jet engines, and specialised structural components for landing gear.
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I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from - what he means by this or by that.
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But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
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The fact that I could sing in a way that might not be right for RADA but is right for me was a brand-new concept.
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I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.
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I try to get massages on Saturday. That's my only day off.
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We in Illumination Entertainment tend not to put ideas through a brand funnel. We've collected a group of people who share a certain taste, and that is connected to our aspirations for our brand. We pride ourselves on making character-centric movies. If I had to say what's the most important thing this company does, it's creating characters that stay with the audience long after they leave the theater.
