Adam Wingard Quotes
I love going on IMDb message boards, and there are some hilarious things that go on there - the most negative people on the planet.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that can be so chronic and familiar it becomes a kind of feminine Muzak, easy to dismiss, or to tune out altogether, even if you're actively participating in it.
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Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.
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I really never watched myself on TV.
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We declare war against socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed nationalism.... We intend to be an active minority, attract the proletariat away from the official Socialist party. But if the middle class thinks that we are going to be their lightning rods, they are mistaken.
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I love going on IMDb message boards, and there are some hilarious things that go on there - the most negative people on the planet.
