Dan Scanlon Quotes
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, 'Hi! How are you?' And I'm like, 'Oh, hi!' And then I realize, 'Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.' Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
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Any real Colts fan cannot abide the Denver Broncos and John Elway!
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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It's filled with... baking soda. Because it really smells.
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Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
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I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
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For my body, I like high-waisted jeans because they make your leg look longer and hides this extra thing on my stomach. You can eat extra food with it because it hides, and I like to tuck in my t-shirts.
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I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.
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This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.
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It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
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It was the greatest thing in the world getting fat. Every meal out was an event. Or we'd go to Italy and we'd have pasta, truffles, and dessert and then plan the next incredible meal. It was a happy-go-lucky time. I never had so much fun.
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I'm not really a horror movie fan.
