Jeff Bridges Quotes

Jeff Bridges is one of the most celebrated and well-respected actors in Hollywood. Not only does he have a long and successful career in front of the camera, but Jeff is also an accomplished musician and photographer. As if that wasn’t enough, Jeff is also a talented writer, with several published works to his name. It’s no wonder then that Jeff has some amazing insights into life and work which he loves to share with the world. Here are some of the best quotes from Jeff Bridges on success, life, and happiness.

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!
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I’m a chairperson for ‘No Kid Hungry’, a campaign for poor American children.
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Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it’s getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in.
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I hate it when there’s a good movie, someone overhypes it and I’m disappointed that I don’t like it more.
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The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.
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What I learned most from my father wasn’t anything he said; it was just the way he behaved. He loved his work so much that, whenever he came on set, he brought that with him, and other people rose to it.
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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they’ve been hurt, they’re sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that’s protecting this tiny, dear part in them that’s still alive.
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I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.
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Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn’t.
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Execution is everything.
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One of the things I want to do that’s outside the realm of acting and the arts – although both have their place in this – is ending childhood hunger here in America.
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So I have this word for much of what I do in life: ‘plorking.’ I’m not playing and I’m not working, I’m plorking.
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Well, when we made ‘Tron’ there was no internet, no cellphones.
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The Oscar nomination is great. It’s a great pat on the back. And I like that.
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I don’t dig Trump or follow what he has to say, but I find it fascinating that he’s surfaced in the political arena. But I’m a Hillary supporter, and I don’t go the Trump way.
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Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side… we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.
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I consider myself a lazy guy, but I do a bunch of stuff, and I’m so busy that in my downtime, I like to be with my wife, who I’m just madly in love with.
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For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.
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Live like you’re already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
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With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in – and once you’ve chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.
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You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can’t fully realize it until you have children yourself.
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I’ve gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.
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My brother’s my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.
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Sticking with a marriage. That’s true grit, man.
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Movies are like magic tricks.
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Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you’re on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.
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I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I’m really slow at it.
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Words fall short sometimes.
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You have these big $200 and $300 million movies with special effects, and I’ve always thought, ‘Gee, why don’t we make 30 movies instead of one $300 million movie?’ Let’s shake it up a bit; wouldn’t that be a better bet? Evidently not.
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Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I’d be used to it after all these years, but it’s like it’s happening for the first time.
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I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.
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Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn’t so good.
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In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.
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Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain’t no king, man.
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There’s kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It’s kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.
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You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible – the Zen thing – to let the deal come out of that nothing.
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If you’re married you’ll have tough times.
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I am a product of nepotism. I don’t think I would have had the profession that I’m in currently… if it wasn’t for my dad.
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My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.
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I said I’m going to vote for Hillary. But my philosophy is that everything’s workable. If Trump is president, I’ll work with that guy. I don’t know if he’s terrible or what. He’s refreshing in that he doesn’t speak in that political way. I don’t quite understand why everybody hates Hillary so much.
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I wish I were more disciplined.
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Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don’t know if it’s a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.
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We’re here for such a short period of time. Live like you’re already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
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There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the day. Life is my guru.
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When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
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It’s a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
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I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I’m not an expert by any means, but it’s so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things.
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Well, I’m not a big sports fan.
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Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I’m interested in a lot of creative stuff.
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Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it’s all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.
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My wife holds the kite strings that let me go ‘weeeeeee’, then she reels me back in.
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Mania is a wonderful feeling.
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Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just ‘re-tiring’ – put on some new tires and go on to do something else.
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That movie, ‘Airplane!,’ what a landmark film it was. It’s a great, great movie.
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As far as Beau is concerned, we’re on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he’s very content.
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There’s a bit of the kid in me.
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Pretend was a big part of my childhood.
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I’m very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we’re all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
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Women are so – maybe this is just a male perspective, but for my money, they’re so connected to life in a way that men aren’t. They’re able to give birth, have children, and it’s literally a part of them. They perhaps have a stronger capacity for caring than males.
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I don’t really care about having more fame than I have.
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Life is having its way with me now. And I’m really pleased.
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I want to have all of my faculties.
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I’m not real good at romance.
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Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.
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As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it’s because I’ve played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.
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The problem with the designated driver programme, it’s not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.
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I love John Irving’s stuff. It’s that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It’s really terrific.
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I’ve had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I’ve been very lucky that way.
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I’m not counting any chickens.
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My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I’m in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.
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I don’t think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
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I do a lot of ceramics.
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Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
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I don’t know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.
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I’m not locked into playing one guy.
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Movies are very subjective.
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If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don’t think you get the richness that’s available in a long-term relationship.
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I’m pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull’s-eye or target that I’m aiming for.
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One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.
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Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you’re going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don’t pay you for.
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Making films is sort of like you’re pulling off a magic trick. It’s sort of like an illusion. It’s not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you’re wearing to the make-up, to the light.
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For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don’t want to stand out. You don’t want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I’m a product of nepotism. That’s how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.
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I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.
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I’ve done several commercials and I’ve done voiceovers for documentaries.
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What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don’t match up you kind of kick to the curb.
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I’m very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it’s one of the great things about making movies is it’s a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character’s costume and what that might tell about your character.
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I used to read comics when I was a kid.
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I’d maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
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Whenever you’re the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
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The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.
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I love westerns, I’d love to make more of them.
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It can kind of screw up things if you’re trying to overwork something.
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Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.
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I’m always busy, but I’m lazy as well.
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I’m constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.
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I’m also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
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You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.
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My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I’ve done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.
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A fella who accepts himself and is relaxed into who he is – that appeals to people.
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Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.
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Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
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My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.
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I had a great ’70s. I survived it, and that’s always good news.
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Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.
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This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path.
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A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
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My wife, whenever I’d go off to work and I’d be kind of anxious, she’ll say, ‘Remember, have fun.’ Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there’s a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.
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I don’t have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.
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Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
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Yeah, I’d been around horses most of my life.
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I love marriage.
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Like most kids, you don’t want to do what your folks want you to do. You’ve got your own thing.
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Yeah, I’ve been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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I’m a big fan of country.
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I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there’s some redundancy in that.
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I like to know where the camera is.
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You don’t want to vilify your ego.
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I’m drawn to the path of least resistance.
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I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.
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My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.
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I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.
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I do my best to hold the director’s opinion above my own.
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My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.
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I think there’s a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
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We’re here for such a short period of time.
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If you’re like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I’ll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you’re doing.
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You can relate to somebody’s pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.
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My mom wasn’t a movie star.
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I’ve worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I’m a team player.
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I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it’s a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.
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I never read reviews of something I want to see.
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I gotta take notes when things occur to me.
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I’m a longboard guy.
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As filmmakers, we’re constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we’re telling.
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If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.
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Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
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I don’t really think in career terms.
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I just hope that theaters remain. I think there’s something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There’s something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.
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I’ve worked with a lot of kids, and when you’re working with kids they have certain hours that they have to work.
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Often when I finish a film I’ll have that feeling inside me: ‘I never want to do this ever again. I don’t want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.’ And then, thank God, that feeling goes away after a month or so and I’m raring to go again.
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I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it – what a huge problem it was and how it wasn’t a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
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That’s one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
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I’ve produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.
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One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.
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I’m kind of an idea guy.
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You know, it’s kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.
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I haven’t been to Comic-Con.
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As far as 3-D goes, I don’t know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.
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My website’s kind of fun for me. I get to do drawings on that. It’s kind of fun.
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