Chris Weitz Quotes
All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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I love working with women.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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Consumers deserve to know exactly what they're getting for their money when they sign-up for a 4G data plan.
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One of the better ways to simplify our lives is to follow the counsel we have so often received to live within our income, stay out of debt, and save for a rainy day. We should practice and increase our habits of thrift, industry, economy, and frugality. Members of a well-managed family do not pay interest; they earn it.
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With all the... success that I've been lucky enough to get? That doesn't happen unless the home life is solid.
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Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;We are happy now because God wills it.
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All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.
