- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing Quotes
On action, effort and the discipline of doing the work.
These lines describe doing in its many forms: the overlap between film and television production, the uncertainty built into research, and committing to work you believe in even without much recognition. For more, see our Action quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing an investigative article on arms trafficking that was taking me through Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And after I had interviewed a helicopter pilot who had been ferrying weapons into Liberia, I realized as I left the restaurant that I was being followed and set up for an ambush.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing processing locally has its advantages. For instance, the cost of an endpoint CPU and memory is a 1000x cheaper than the cost of CPU and memory in the server. And in many places around the world, connectivity and transmission costs are sometimes far more expensive than the device.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently.
- Support
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one thing to support your kid, but if you have an interest in what your child is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a New Zealand actor, and I really want to be doing our stuff here, and our stuff includes plays from overseas. In terms of survival, maybe I should have taken a shot elsewhere at some point, but it gets back to the same theme - we should have our own people telling our own stories.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.
- Good Things
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- Nov 07, 2020