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 love to smile.
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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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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
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Well, there are certain foods that I prefer not to eat because they're just such a jolt to the system.
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Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch.
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I was obsessed with the Spice Girls! I always wanted to be Sporty. Or Posh, but I wasn't pretty enough.
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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I'm pretty happy not to be an insider anymore. There's just no common ground. I don't know if it's distrust or that the politics is substantially more partisan than the public. But there's no pressure to make a grand bargain on fiscal matters, on growth, on anything.
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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.
