You Quotes
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
Nastassja Kinski -
You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
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To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
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It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.
Nastassja Kinski -
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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You can't hit what you can't see.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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You're gifted to do something.
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People send me fanmail in the post, and I keep every letter, and I always say I will read every single one. It might take me years and years, but I'll do it. Your audience are what makes you, so you have give as much back as you can.
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I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
