David Michod Quotes
The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film - what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
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It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.
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I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.
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God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
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The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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When I sat in rooms with middle-aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America. They had been solidly middle class for the majority of their working careers, but now they were feeling angry, disaffected, and in some cases, they actually had tears in their eyes.
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I think there are always going to be people who say, even if they are engaged in the movie, they just want it to move faster.
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Never focus on what you can’t do - only imagine everything you could.
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The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.
