- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing nonfiction, you're responsible to posterity, to history, to other people because the events happened, and you feel responsible to record them as they happened.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable. It's not your physical life, but it's everything else, so it felt like a lot was at stake.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm so physically exuberant, it was extra hard to sit still at the desk and put in the hours that you need to put in to write.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the old days, you cut out a scene that might've been a really great scene, and no one was ever going to see it ever again. Now, with DVD, you can obviously... there's a lot of possibilities for scenes that are good scenes.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about being young and dumb is that you don't know what you can't do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Second movies are great because you can drop into them, and it doesn't really have a beginning on it, particularly in a traditional way. You can just tear into it.
- Chop
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about 14, I got a splicing kit, which means you could chop up the film into little pieces and switch the order around and glue it together.
- Nov 07, 2020
Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.
- Rain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, movies, you're often on location, out in the rain or the sun, in a real place where the trees and the cars are real. But when you're on stage, as an actor you're imagining the environment that you're in.
- Being Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020