Luca Guadagnino Quotes
As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur the boundaries between the character and the person themselves. In order to achieve that, I try to make people feel at ease, to be mindless of problems and be skinless and give everything to the camera.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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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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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
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What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
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I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
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As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur the boundaries between the character and the person themselves. In order to achieve that, I try to make people feel at ease, to be mindless of problems and be skinless and give everything to the camera.
