Baltasar Kormakur Quotes
I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.
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The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.
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What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices. But, nevertheless, we still make that connection between authoritative speech and male speech.
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Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.
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You'll change inside when you realize The world comes to life and everything's bright From beginning to end when you have a friend by your side.
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I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
