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- Directing comes closer than anything I’ve found yet to providing me with a good reason to get up in the morning that goes beyond just…
- For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.
- I have these guilty pleasures, these failed films that don't work at all, but I'll watch them if they're on. Like 'The Game.
- An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony…
- An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual…
- The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like…
- If you're doing something on an interesting scale that involves an entire universe of characters, one way to unite them is to have them all…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman