- Imagination
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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
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
- Sit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.
- Creative Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
My team fills two separate drink bottles for me in the car. One is water, and the other has orange juice. I just turn a valve and go from water to juice... to adjust my glucose levels.
- Head-On
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- Nov 07, 2020
Overcoming the obstacle of my diabetes diagnosis was something that forced me tackle the challenge head-on and, with an amazing support system, eventually come out stronger.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the only purpose in making films, in my mind, is to talk about something and go to a place that might be difficult but that can make you still think and question.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still go see films for entertainment, and I love them, but for me as a filmmaker, I really want to have a purpose in telling a story.
- Wise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will say this: I know no wise person who doesn't read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the computer now and get a lot of benefit out of it, but I doubt that it'll work as well as reading print worked for me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020