Andrew Dominik Quotes
I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and all of that. But I didn't have it. So I did bad things to get what I wanted. Going to jail never crossed my mind. I wish it had. When I was locked up, my mother didn't support me because she couldn't accept who I was and where I was.
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When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, 'Emo, don't go near the cellar door!' One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun..
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Make portraits of people in familiar and typical positions, above all give their faces the same choice of expression one gives their bodies. Thus if laughter is typical for a person, make him laugh – there are, naturally, feelings that one cannot render…
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I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.
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I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.
