- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not gonna respond to people calling me a race baiter. It doesn't serve me. Also, I'm not a race baiter.
- Nov 07, 2020
I do my research, and if I'm supporting something, then it's because it aligns with me morally and ethically.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always wondering what else I could be doing. It never feels enough to just use my platform. I'm happy to give a voice to people who may not be heard half as much, but I'm always wondering what else I could be doing, since my position almost requires me to do more. And I want to do more.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a million brands of micellar water, but the Bioderma was recommended to me by a makeup artist, and it really cleans your face when you're not able to wash it on the spot.
- Cognizant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've become very cognizant of how people are perceiving me, which is a little bit to my detriment.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get to the office every day, I either take a Lyft or have my wife drop me off. It's about a 15-minute drive from my house to the office.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, being able to be vulnerable is difficult, but it's just something that I feel comfortable doing. I need to fully understand why, the thought-process behind the character and I have to believe it. That comes from a lot of preparation.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020