Anton Corbijn Quotes
I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
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What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.
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What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
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You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts.
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Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
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'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.'
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We didn’t know how to play any instruments but we would write lyrics.
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It's nice to be remembered.
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I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.
