Leos Carax Quotes
I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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It's important to see color. We are not the same. We have very different experiences.
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I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.
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Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
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If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
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Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
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I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.
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Whatever is supreme in a state, ought to have, as much as possible, its judicial authority so constituted as not only not to depend upon it, but in some sort to balance it. It ought to give a security to its justice against its power. It ought to make its judicature, as it were, something exterior to the state.
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The Little Boy’s Bed-Time See under Translations
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I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.
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The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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How many people have had starter marriages? For some reason, mine really offends people.
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I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.
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When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.
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Let's face it: grandparents are very important to family systems. You're babysitters, but you also instill values in children that sometimes skip a generation.
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With '2 Dope Queens,' with stand-up, and also with 'Sooo Many White Guys,' the interview stuff that I do, I really am a fan first.
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I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.
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I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.
