Lee Unkrich Quotes
We could make the most beautiful film in the world, but if it doesn't have a heart beating underneath it, then no one's going to be interested.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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I try to be me to the utmost.
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Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.
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Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
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Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies to tell a greater truth. The story is a mask; the characters you create are masks. That appeals to me. Aside from that, too, in the carnival the masks were beautiful, and offered a vision of Haitian creativity.
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Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
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We could make the most beautiful film in the world, but if it doesn't have a heart beating underneath it, then no one's going to be interested.
