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Morten Tyldum Quotes

I wanted to make a movie that celebrates the outsider, the one who is different, the one who is not normal - and show how important that is.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: norwegian
Birth: May 19, 1967

Topics

Important Outsider Normal Different

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

Son Bird Football Basketball Hockey

I don't feel safe around a lot of people.

People Feel Safe Around Lot

I don't really dissect too much when ideas come - they just kind of pop into my head; I just take them and run.

Ideas Too Much Kind Run Head Take

I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.

World Florida Pieces Show Just Many

I don't write for theme, but if you work closely on some guy fixing a sandwich or a window or a table or trying to visit an old teacher or walking down the street on which he was a boy, a theme, a human hope, will emerge.

Work Hope Teacher Window Walking

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

Friend Father Man Writing Thinking

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

Lorraine Toussaint

Life Great Shadow Energy Self Dark

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

Famous Enjoy You Need Being Famous

Counter-insurgency warfare is not a simple thing... it's not as simple as, like, good guys versus bad guys. It is a mess.

Chelsea Manning

Good Simple Bad Mess Good Guys Like

I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.

Anthony Hopkins

Home Feel America Play Living More

When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize and explain it in some way. It's totally irrelevant, I think, now. I don't think anybody cares. Not young people, at least. Maybe journalists.

Friend People Think You Young Group

Yeah, I'm a vegetarian - but still, some things are just nasty. I like salads. But sometimes, they get too creative. I like regular food, just no meat in it.

Food Creative Sometimes Meat Nasty

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