John Hillcoat Quotes

I personally found 'Avatar' - the blue people, to me, looked like painted art from the seventies. It didn't have the realism as, say, the robotic machines.

John Hillcoat

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ArtBluePeopleMeSaySeventies

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

John Barton

TimeNew ThingsPoetryMeEndNew

I've tried to create a comedy that doesn't look like any other comedy. Maybe traditionally in TV there has been a kind of formula that says, 'Oh, comedy has to look this way; it has to look super bright.' But the way we shoot 'Insecure' is motivated by the mental state of each of our characters.

Melina Matsoukas

ComedyLookCreateKindWayBright

Seeing the work of directors like Romeo Castellucci, Ivo van Hove, Thomas Ostermeier, and Simon McBurney and Theatre de Complicite, was, and continues to be, hugely important to me. To my mind, these are artists who are forging new languages of performance and storytelling, and their constant reinvention is very inspiring.

Sophie Hunter

WorkMindMeTheatrePerformance

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

Jose Mourinho

FootballPeopleSocietyNegativeGo

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.

Jonathan Tropper

EvilBluesFirstPianoGhostNovel

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

Dorothy Thompson

FearTruthFindNothingOutAnalyze

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.

Cornel West

RelationshipGovernmentQuestions

I have a rendezvous with life.

Countee Cullen

LifeRendezvous

I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and a resurgence of the Nazi Party.

Coretta Scott King

I AmPartyMoreOfficeSeeScared

I like to challenge myself and grow as an actress.

Cobie Smulders

MyselfChallengeGrowActressLike

I think we have a very Disneyfied, sterilized version of what an evil witch is nowadays.

Anya Taylor-Joy

EvilThinkWitchNowadaysI Think

I don't know what I would have done without acting. I officially fell into it around age 6 in a class play that reimagined 'The Ugly Duckling.' My joy in performing was so boundless, you would have thought I'd just won a Tony.

Ari Graynor

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