- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the mind has a way of getting to where it needs to get to. If you are persistent.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's hard on writers. Hard on actors, hard on editors, hard on me, hard on the producers, who require patience and confidence. But I can't get to the end without going through this process.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely have moments in my life where I discovered a film, and the language of the film itself spoke to me in a way, as if someone came up to you and started speaking a language you'd never heard but understood and was able to express things the language you knew could not.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little less lonely.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every film requires a different process. You learn about these particular actors and the particular chemistry between these actors. Recognizing when you don't need to shoot a scene because it's going to be cut anyway.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the civic virtue and decency of the individual who holds the office.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's really powerful and potentially dominating forces when you make a film that can harm it if you're incapable of orchestrating things.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have many rules, but one of them is, 'Do not make a movie you yourself would not want to see.'
- Obstacles
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you track something like a political campaign and parcel out what's being communicated in a literal and narrative sense, and what's being communicated by means of emotional and symbolic language, you might find that it's the latter elements that absolutely dominate and move people. It makes me want to take that language and expose it.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filmmaking requires the participation and cooperation of many people. It's unrealistic to expect that you're not going to be challenged by unforeseeable forces from every direction.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020