Andrew Lau Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I love anything to do with history.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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A good script is like a work of art in itself. I've read hundreds of scripts, and good ones are very rare. If the writer has something to say, and a voice, and a plot that matches character, and an emotional trajectory that works, then I'd be an idiot to fool around with it. It's just that few scripts ever are like that.
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Invest in vanity. Buy stocks in high-profile companies whose products are designed to make you feel good and look good.
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When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.
