Patrice Leconte Quotes
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.
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I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
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What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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I've had watermelon hair where I had pink with green tips. From the age of 13 to about 19 or 20, I never had my real hair color.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
