Lee Tamahori Quotes
A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it's essentially about girls, guns, gadgets, and big action.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.
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The arts are what humanize science and history.
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I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don't know about you, but every movie that I saw when I was a kid, I emulated. I was Haley Mills for an entire summer and had an English accent.
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A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it's essentially about girls, guns, gadgets, and big action.
