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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Catchphrase: Can we talk?
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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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We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.
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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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Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
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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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A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
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I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.
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Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
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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.
