Kim Jee-woon Quotes
One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures.
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I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.
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What people don't understand is that it wasn't about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.
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The premiere of Lynne Ramsay's film of 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' at the Cannes film festival provides an apt juncture at which to celebrate the miraculous power - not of film but of fiction. Lo, I have created a monster.
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You make me feel like a natural man
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One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.
