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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I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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There's so many FM hits that I love. Bob Seger, there's two of his songs that I love. I would probably love more, but I don't sit around listening to Bob Seger records. It's the same thing with Tom Petty; he writes amazing hits, but it's not often that I sit around at home listening to a whole Tom Petty album.
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In 1974, we began franchising. We didn't have any big thought process except that, 'OK, franchising will help us get to our goal of 32 stores and help us run stores farther away from home.'
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I think the biggest insult, the worst way you can offend a Mexican, is to insult their mother. A mother is the most sacred thing in life.
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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.
