- Good
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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
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a filmmaker who grew up wanting to make a movie for people to have that female experience of sitting in the theater together, it's hard to do unless you can compete with the bigger spectacles that are being offered to them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was constantly reading books about how to direct, and asking directors, 'How do you do it?' And when I finally actually started doing the work, it seemed like you have to be decisive and have an opinion. But also you have to be a good collaborator and hire the right people to shore up whatever your skill set is.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'The Spy Who Dumped Me,' it wasn't fear as much as it was feeling overwhelmed because there were so many moving parts. But I felt that I knew what I was doing. And on a movie like this, there's so much preparation that goes into it that by the time you were there, you had done months of planning.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of working with the second unit director and basically sharing your workload with another director is such an interesting, delicate thing - and entrusting that person with your vision and making sure that you are not adding a completely different aesthetic to the mix that you don't have to contend with in editing.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're watching a Bond movie, if there's a violent death, there's something about cleverly chosen twists, or what props are used, or some way that he's doing something that feels like an ironic twist, that feels like it gives the audience permission to enjoy watching it and to enjoy watching something that's otherwise just brutality.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Micro humor is a joke that's contained in the writing: it's a punch line, it's a turn of phrase, it's something that you can see on the page, and no matter who's saying it, it is, in and of itself, a funny line.
- Destruction
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can have a lot of destruction, but in a realistic female movie, the women are going to be aware of that destruction and apologizing for it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it's more social. When you live on lots of acres without neighbors within a stone's throw, your dog-walks are usually solitary rambles over hill and dale.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020