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Gavin O'Connor Quotes

The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

Gavin O'Connor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american

Topics

Home Heart Simple Ocean Growing Up

I don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.

Joe Morton

Villain Negative Think View You

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

John C. Maxwell

Work Leader Vision Teamwork Team

We need to band together in solidarity. There's so many portions of our community that are under-represented. You rarely see disabled actors on movie posters or black men or Latino guys.

Andrea Riseborough

Community Men Together Black You

My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.

Angie Stone

Mom Sister Her Candidate Diabetic

I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, when I was 12.

Tucker Carlson

Life Feel My Life First Him Hunter

It seems the feminists are all about female freedom of expression so long as the female is overweight or transgender. You can't pick and choose what type of women fit your agenda.

Tomi Lahren

Women Freedom Long You Choose Seems

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

Tony Curtis

Born I Was Born Period Could Worked

Hollywood's racist.

Rosie Perez

Hollywood

In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver Twist effrontery that stands vulnerably before authority, asking for more or better.

Michael Leunig

Calm Better Authority More Asking

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Alone Yourself End You Up Going

My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers to connect with my books, I do them. I've also made many lifelong friends whom I first encountered as interviewers - as a writer, they're a terrific way to meet and add smart new people to one's life.

Douglas Coupland

Life Experience Job Smart People

Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.

Chiaki Kuriyama

Appreciation Me Doing Attention Play