Me Quotes
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I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
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Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
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I like a man who's going to tell me 'No!' sometimes.
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Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
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Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
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I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
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My manager has been my manager since I was 17, and he says that he's supposed to be smart for me when I can't do it for myself.
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Why did I want to become a director? I just had an early interest. My uncle was an actor in a local community theatre, and he ultimately persuaded me and a buddy of mine to come to that theatre, and we went to meet girls, and that turned into interested in kind of behind-the-scenes things, and from that point on, I was focused.
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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
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I don't think anyone could play me. It would have to be me.
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If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don't even say hello. They sort of forget that I'm a person.
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I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a mentor figure who guided me through the process and also protected me and made sure that when it came time to actually make 'Whiplash,' I was able to make exactly the movie I wanted to make.
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Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.
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I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else.
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There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
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Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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There's more to me than fashion. I just don't want to be seen as fashion.
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The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
