Louis Leterrier Quotes
I've started movies without screenplays both on 'Clash' and on 'Hulk,' and that is tremendously stressful because you have a tendency to overcompensate with effects. You haven't tested it in your head. You didn't run it over and over again and covered all of the plot holes and figure it out. It's a marathon that you sprint.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust.
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It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
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This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
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I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'
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Nothing is static; things always change. The best you can do is change along with them and work with what you have.
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When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.
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I think that as my kids grow up and hit milestones that spark emotion for myself in my own history, it will always trigger personal feelings from those times - whether good or bad - and I definitely want to develop the tools I need to keep the immediacy of those negative emotions in the past.
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I've started movies without screenplays both on 'Clash' and on 'Hulk,' and that is tremendously stressful because you have a tendency to overcompensate with effects. You haven't tested it in your head. You didn't run it over and over again and covered all of the plot holes and figure it out. It's a marathon that you sprint.
