Evan Mandery Quotes
I like to imagine the iPod as the soundtrack to people's lives. It makes ordinary life a bit more like the movies.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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I can't imagine working without and audience.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
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I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch my own movies.' Well, it's not just you. There's a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.
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I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.
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I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.
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I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
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There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.
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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
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How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.
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At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.
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I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
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I like to imagine the iPod as the soundtrack to people's lives. It makes ordinary life a bit more like the movies.
