Dan Scanlon Quotes
At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!
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When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers.
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At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
