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I got so excited about it. I was like, 'Yes! I won a Grammy!' And then my manager was like, 'No, you did not win a Grammy. You were part of a song that won a Grammy. Rihanna won a Grammy.'
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There are plenty of movies that you need to chew on a bit. Movies that you return to and see something different in the second time around.
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Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
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I can give you a definite perhaps.
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You basically only discover a new thing once.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.
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Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
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You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have.
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When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
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If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
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I'm a firm believer in only getting involved in things you're passionate about.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
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You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.
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If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.
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When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
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We don't care if you understand us.
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You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.
