Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
The process of shooting - of choosing shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way towards what seems right.
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The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
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I love animated movies in general. I like making them.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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If the founders of a start-up are considering selling it, I'd advise them to consider the synergies. Could the buyer give you access to something you don't have now, like a certain technology? Would it make your life easier? Are you looking for a change? Things will change, so you have to be ready for that.
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Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.
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We have large armies, well disciplined and appointed, with commanders inferior to none in military skill, and superior in activity and zeal. We are furnished with arsenals and stores beyond our most sanguine expectations.
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I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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Something like 'Psycho,' which is this psychological thing that slowly, slowly, slowly builds, and actually it's a much more powerful reaction you have when it assumes that you're intelligent as you're watching it. I want them to make me believe that whatever's happening could really happen, and then it becomes much more frightening.
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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The process of shooting - of choosing shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way towards what seems right.
