Alan Taylor Quotes
When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.
Quotes to Explore
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My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.
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I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.
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The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
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When you direct a movie that makes no money whatsoever, there is no rush to your door for the next one.
