Dean Israelite Quotes
I think what's exciting about doing it as found footage - if we all are being honest, found footage gets a little bit of a bad rap sometimes, but I think that there's a lot of potential in the medium in taking it seriously and in treating the audience with respect and in treating the characters with respect in terms of, why is the camera really on? Where would the camera be when it is on?
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
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The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
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It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
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Isn't she lovely made from love?
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I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.
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The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.
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That showed a total lack of disrespect from the player.
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I think what's exciting about doing it as found footage - if we all are being honest, found footage gets a little bit of a bad rap sometimes, but I think that there's a lot of potential in the medium in taking it seriously and in treating the audience with respect and in treating the characters with respect in terms of, why is the camera really on? Where would the camera be when it is on?
