Atticus Ross Quotes
I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.
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It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
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If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
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I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.
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I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.
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I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.
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Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue.
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You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.
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The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.
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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
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I argue that the resurrection was not the Great Resuscitation. It was a total transformation. I just don't accept the black-and-white thinking that goes along with needing to regard the gospels are literally true.
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I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography.
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At the end of the day, I just have to do what I do and let it be what it's gonna be.
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I grew up loving women and without misogyny, rancour or prejudice, totally loved and loving. And no matter what has happened since, I don't think I have treated women in my life very badly.
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I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.
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The end excuses any evil.
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When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.
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The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.
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It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
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I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.
