Ben Wheatley Quotes
I've had pretty much the same crew for all the films that I've made, and I've managed to have really nice, calm, funny people. That is a big part of it, a family feeling of warmth and finding something interesting and making a platform for them to perform. It's a very difficult job, acting, in that it's totally counterintuitive to how we are brought up.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.
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There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.
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I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.
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Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.
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I've had pretty much the same crew for all the films that I've made, and I've managed to have really nice, calm, funny people. That is a big part of it, a family feeling of warmth and finding something interesting and making a platform for them to perform. It's a very difficult job, acting, in that it's totally counterintuitive to how we are brought up.
