Chris Stokes Quotes
I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.
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'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'
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Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.
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Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
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I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would talk to the actors. I tried to make my own school.
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There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.
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Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'
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I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.
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For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations.
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I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.
