Walter Salles Quotes
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Quotes to Explore
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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I love creating bold, cinematic moments with my runway shows, so the idea of being a film director has always been appealing to me.
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Life is scary.
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I think, however, that Astaire's coordination is better than Kelly's... his sense of rhythm is uncanny. Kelly, on the other hand, is the stronger of the two. When he lifts you, he lifts you!... To sum it up, I'd say they were the two greatest dancing personalities who were ever on screen. But it's like comparing apples and oranges. They're both delicious.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
