David Slade Quotes

On one level, this was the biggest challenge out there - to make a film of this scope, in this amount of time, and to go into a different genre, essentially. Yes, I've done a vampire film, but 'Eclipse' is a very different kind of thing. This is a romantic story, which swings from a darker, more abject feeling to very pure romantic scenes.

David Slade

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 26, 1969

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The one thing that I learned in college, actually, was that you may reach tremendous highs and tremendous lows.

Jidenna

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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.

Joe Taslim

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I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

Jennifer Grey

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If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.

John Mayer

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Fitness is really important for my mental and emotional equilibrium as well as my physical wellbeing.

Robert Rinder

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I need to fill myself up with real life. That's kind of the well I draw from.

Sissy Spacek

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It's not that I'm necessarily looking for things that are so dark and emotional. But if I see something where the character goes through enormous change, it's very appealing to play all those levels, and that is probably going to involve some dark moments.

Tracy Pollan

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I kind of always wanted to act, but to get a grant I would have needed two A-levels, and I was too far away from even O levels. I didn't know you could get a scholarship, so I determined early not to pursue that.

Rupert Graves

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So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

Mika Waltari

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I say every slur on the planet - racial, homosexual, everything to do with every ethnic group on the planet - and guess what? I will never apologize for that because I know why I do it, and it is to make a valid point about ignorance in this society.

Lisa Lampanelli

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There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Dennis Prager

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