Chris Weitz Quotes

#1. It's our damage that makes us interesting.

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#2. The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and there would be a struggle between the children and the new wife, in terms of who would inherit what.

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#3. Presidents make history. I'm just a tool of history.

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#4. To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

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#5. People like to be able to identify a brand, and I don't really have one.

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#6. Language trips you up. You can't ever say exactly what you mean, and every time you try try, you actually end up saying something about yourself.

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#7. It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.

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#8. An accessible introduction to the nature of political thought. Just what I always wanted.

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#9. I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

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#10. People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

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#11. There's only a couple hundred of us here in the Square. Pretty much everybody has a sweet pad, except Brainbox, who lives in the library. I mean literally lives in the Bobst Library. I

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#12. Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.

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#13. The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

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#14. Well," I say, "we're practically there."
"Where?" says Jefferson.
"The future.

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#15. The escaped polar bear owned Central Park. Until we killed it.

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#16. Modern responses to Cinderella's predicament are interesting. If you're not careful, you'll think, "Well, she's just a big wimp. She should fight for her rights. She should call the government."

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#17. I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.

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#18. So in a way, capitalism was a method for people to keep connected. That kind of glued people together, gave them a better way of getting one another to do things than just using flat-out force.

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#19. I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

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#20. I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.

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#21. And it's good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. Good-bye, my friends, I love you; good-bye, I'm sorry I didn't know you better; good-bye, I'm sorry you'll die soon, too; good-bye, maybe there's hope for you; good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.

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#22. All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.

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#23. There is no place in the world where nobody dies. There is no place where nobody is hungry, or nobody hurts. That place is only in our imagination. But if we get our heads around it, we can go a little way toward making this real place more like that imaginary place. They call that place Utopia.

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#24. I think it's so incredibly special to be able to try to recapitulate that feeling I had when I was sitting in that theater, as a 7-year-old. It's an extraordinary job. I'm incredibly lucky.

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#25. Don't you get it? It's the end of the world! That's exactly when you fall in love. When else?

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#26. The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

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