- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way Quotes
Quotes on finding your own way.
These quotes describe the 'way' things really work - a blunt take on how managers actually get ahead in their careers, and a tongue-in-cheek trick for looking fit without the work. Related reading includes Best Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
For somebody like Kanye, fame is the fullest realisation of his art in a way. It's like an Andy Warhol dream or something. He's able to marshal all of these different artforms and media into his story, in this very layered, idiosyncratic way.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from the East Coast; I think about things dialectically sometimes - in other words, antagonistically. The rhythms that I think of are polyrhythmic, bouncy, loping. The way that I want to approach that is to get, like, a flat-footed Connecticut hard-core drummer to play these bouncy, loping polyrhythms.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, when I have my own kids, I'll tell them that, even when their life is not easy, they can still do anything they want. That is the way to approach things.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Sarri's philosophy. We play high, with a lot of possession in a technical way.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started making films, all the theaters, the screen would slide open the widest possible point, and that would be widescreen. But now, theaters are geared up for around 16:9, so scope is now 'letterboxed.' In a way, if you want the big picture, you shoot 16:9.
- Nov 07, 2020
I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it's not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system because there's a lot of people, there's money, there's a big machine to kind of make it - and how to find methods and processes that allow it to continue to be a lively process and a creative process.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my films are, in some way, romances. But I've always felt that the best romances are somehow doomed.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020