James Gunn Quotes

When you're on an independent film, you have a lot of great people there who are telling really true and authentic stories. But you also have a lot of con artists and people who think they can do something that they can't.

James Gunn

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GreatPeopleThinkYouTrueCon

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.

Joe Scarborough

CarMeWorryGoTrafficNeed

The three greatest people in my life were white, OK. My high school coach, my high school superintendent and my mentor in Manhasset, Long Island.

Jim Brown

LifeSchoolPeopleHigh SchoolLong

Instead of trying to be the queen of cool, it feels like more of an achievement to work with mainstream brands and reach as many people as possible. It's more unexpected for someone like me.

Andreja Pejic

WorkAchievementQueenPeopleCool

One of the big moments of my life was watching 'Star Wars' on its opening weekend in Hollywood. I was watching all these people enjoy this film, and I thought: animation can do this.

John Lasseter

LifePeopleThoughtMy LifeMoments

It took me 10 fights to get the damn interim title shot and then 11 to get an undisputed shot.

Max Holloway

MeDamnGetShotTitleThen

When I write from the point of view of a child or a young person, I am trying to tell the truth as an adult voice sometimes cannot. We are so often wrapped in the garment of trying to reassure ourselves that we are not afraid.

Michael Cadnum

TruthI AmChildVoiceViewTrying

I had a pretty normal, non-Hollywood life for most of my 20s in San Francisco.

Janet Varney

LifeNormalPrettySan FranciscoHad

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

Jonah Hill

CultureMoneyYouTemptationBad

I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.

Donnie Iris

MyselfLuckThinkThoughtLuckyGet

The interaction between human rights campaigners from Pakistan and India was a big taboo in the 1980s. When we started traveling to India to increase people-to-people contact between the two nations, we knew that we would face serious repercussions back home.

Asma Jahangir

HomeFaceBackIndiaSeriousHuman

I can't take responsibility for everyone's employment.

Peter Jackson

ResponsibilityEveryoneEmployment

To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

Scott Stossel

PersonalitySoulBrainSayingSay

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