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Wong Kar-wai Quotes

I have an image of Shanghai, which is quite different from other directors, I think. The story of Shanghai should happen in back alleys.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: chinese
Birth: July 17, 1956

Topics

Story Think Back Image Happen Quite

How much do you have to pay someone to be in a George Clooney/Alexander Payne film? Nothing! Because everyone in the world wants to be a part of it. Therefore you pay nothing. And that continues until you become something they need... I'm not that kind of actor. I'm blue collar and very replaceable.

Matthew Lillard

Blue World Someone You Kind Become

I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt.

Life Time Myself Writing Remember

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Genius Empty Prime Labels Luggage

One of the more difficult things is the time. Either you are going 100 miles an hour, or you are sleeping. There is nothing in between.

Time You Nothing Sleeping Difficult

But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.

Vision Eyes Simple Development More

Some of the best things that I ever sold on Ebay, I bought on Ebay - just for way less.

Best Way Things Just Some Less

Spotify was one of the first services that actually focuses on the consumer because they don't have to spend hundreds of dollars a year on music.

Music Year First Because Consumer

With 'White Light,' I had just finished watching 'Under the Skin' and was really obsessed with the idea of science fiction presented as normality.

Science Light White Skin Watching

I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control.

Best Job Walls I Am Writing Control

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

Life People Reading You Happens

I can do contortionist things; it's really weird. But I can freak people out, which is great!

Great People Weird I Can Out Freak

50 and I are extremely close, so all that social media drama? It's just for the show.

Courtney A. Kemp

Social Media Media Drama Social Just

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