Luca Guadagnino Quotes
You know when they say you need to put people who go well together? I much prefer to put people who fight at the table. Then you have some sort of sparkle at the dinner!
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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Sometimes you hear that many politicians vote for a bill in various forms before they vote against it, or vice versa. The conflict, negotiation, and eventual compromise involved in this process form the essence of the democratic process.
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I'm very encouraged by millennials and their drive to make the world a better place.
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It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.
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I honestly love any good chick flick, as long as it's a good movie or pretty funny. 'Love Actually' is a no-brainer.
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Genes are natural resources.
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You know when they say you need to put people who go well together? I much prefer to put people who fight at the table. Then you have some sort of sparkle at the dinner!
