Taylor Lautner Quotes
When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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You are just your intelligence.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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Not counting Small Steps, I think Holes is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn’t changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I’m still too close to Small Steps to compare it to Holes.
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The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.
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It was extraordinary 'cause I was 17 years old when I first danced with Edward Villella. And we were both young. But I had seen him dance, and he was already a star. So he was just so gentle and wonderful and kind, and we had a great rapport together. He was one of the most exciting dancers of our day.
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I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.
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There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.
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When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
