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Alexandre Aja Quotes

Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was okay. In the nineties, you had to obey your niche. You had to follow the code and never step outside of exactly what you're doing.

Alexandre Aja

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: french
Birth: August 7, 1977

Topics

Style Step Growing Up Doing You Go

At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you've got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.

Jeffrey Wright

Work You Investment Actor Risk More

Nobody really knows my true feelings on a lot of issues.

Megyn Kelly

Feelings Nobody True Knows Issues

One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.

Robert K. Massie

History Me Kind Things Where Sense

I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

Robert Kiyosaki

Mistakes School New York High School

It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

John Paul Stevens

Job Laws Been Our Apply Written

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

Amanda Peet

Chocolate Cheese Heartbeat Up Give

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Robert Collier

Step Mind First Step Battle You

What do I know about sex? I'm a married man.

Tom Clancy

Man Sex Know Married Married Man

I'm not mad when people talk bad about me; that's the way it is.

Miguel Cabrera

People Me Bad Mad Way Talk

Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?

Molly Ivins

Politics Person Only Who Am Noticed

I was never an actress in high school. I didn't start acting until I was in my twenties. I was just a funny cheerleader. I hadn't even seen a show until I was in my twenties, so I was very late getting into the business.

Debra Monk

Funny Business School Start Acting

No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because it is empathy.

Dayananda Saraswati

Heart Culture Religion Empathy Touch