Jean-Marc Vallee Quotes

I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

Jean-Marc Vallee

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I don't want to be too power-hungry.

Joel Edgerton

WantToo

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

Rob Sheffield

MusicYearAttentionLoudestStar

There's a difference between 'political films' and 'films about Iraq.'

Rod Lurie

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Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Michelangelo

YouDivineEvenDisdainMale

I did not realize how broken I was until I saw how broken Mama was.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by their strength.

Courtney A. Kemp

LoveStrengthWomenMoreGetFact

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Brian Selznick

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I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.

Antonio Munoz Molina

LifeCourageGreatPeopleWindTide

When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

Anne Tyler

WillSomethingWorkingReadEver

I don't really care where I go because wherever I go, they're going to get a very talented, driven guy that's going to get every inch of his potential out, max everything I have in my body out.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

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I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.

Anne Enright

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My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.

Audrey Meadows

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