- Experience
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- 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
- Being Used
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little bit better about yourself because you know your work is being used for something greater than producing a profit, maybe you will get more creative; maybe you will want to work more.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, you're never busy enough.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You go into an audition, you're either the one or you're not, and if you're not, you go home. And I kind of like that. If you're really good, and you're the best guy in the room that day, you get the job.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the decathlon I'm constantly trying to convince myself that I want to do this, that I want to take myself to that place where it's going to hurt and things are going to be tough. But that's like anything - you want to give your best.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
- Nov 07, 2020
How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to see my films. I have no wish to remain on the sidelines. I have no wish to make films that are only seen by bohemians in London and Paris.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot always means something other than what it is. All are vehicles. A landscape is just a vehicle. The viewer might think different things, and I'm not going to intervene.
- Nov 07, 2020
Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020