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I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.


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JOSEPH CONRAD He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
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SOTONYE ANGA Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

Style is King, 2008.
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ANYA TAYLOR-JOY If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us...
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GAL GADOT It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time....
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Make a place to sit down.
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WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
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unless it...
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GARRETT DILLAHUNT I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than ...
GARRET DILLAHUNT Honestly, what drew me to the project was the quality of the script. It's a beautiful thriller, very...
ARMAND ASSANTE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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ALISON DOODY To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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ALEX PETTYFER I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.
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DEBASISH MRIDHA I look for something that has a chance to be a good movie; it's that simple.
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JOSH BILLINGS Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
JOSH BILLINGS There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
JOSH BILLINGS One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
JOSH BILLINGS I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am ...
JOSH BILLINGS There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
JOSH BILLINGS There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
JOSH BILLINGS A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
JOSH BILLINGS When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
JOSH BILLINGS The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
JOSH BILLINGS Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
JOSH BILLINGS Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
JOSH BILLINGS Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
JOSH BILLINGS Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
JOSH BILLINGS There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
JOSH BILLINGS A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
JOSH BILLINGS It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge...
JOSH BILLINGS Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
JOSH BILLINGS Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool
JOSH BILLINGS Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
JOSH BILLINGS There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly en...
JOSH BILLINGS Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
JOSH BILLINGS Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
JOSH BILLINGS A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.
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