Me Quotes
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If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.
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People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
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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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I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.
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For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
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During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I'm glad it worked out I'm here.
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I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.
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The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.
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To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
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To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.
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What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.
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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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My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.
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I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.
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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
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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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The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.
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For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical.
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If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
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There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.
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My dad would take me deer hunting with him, which was pretty traumatic - 'Bambi' was one of my favorite movies.
