Top 27 Jean Marc Vallee Quotes

#1. When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#2. I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#3. Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

Josephine Hart

#4. I am not here for me
I am not here to promote my ego
I am here to serve the Great Spirit
To be a voice for those afraid to speak
To be movement for those who are stuck
I am here to reveal a mystery
To learn something new about myself

Holly Near

#5. Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

Bill Walton

#7. English is a bitch

Anne Carson

#8. When I see great film, I have this feeling of 'Oh, wow! Wasn't that great? Wasn't that good?' I want to do something. I want to scream and go out there and participate and embrace life.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#9. Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#10. In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#11. I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#12. As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#13. Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

Thomas Aquinas

#14. When will people understand that it is useless for a man to read his Bible unless he also reads everybody else's Bible?

G.K. Chesterton

#15. I loved my experience on 'Downton Abbey.' We shot it in six months, and it was the first time I'd ever been on TV, and I was surrounded by my friends. It was a wonderful, wonderful time.

Rose Leslie

#16. I look back, and I've got a couple of films, and I'm happy.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#17. What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.

Dan Ariely

#18. Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts.

Ken Follett

#19. [Barack] Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.

Alan Keyes

#20. There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#21. I love helping the kids.

Leon Spinks

#22. I'm from the 'less is more' school. I had to be in the 'more is more' zone with 'Dallas Buyers Club', so I was out of my comfort zone, but I had to trust that.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#23. I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#24. At this very moment with my girl in my arms, I feel like there's nothing I can't do for her, for us. - Duke

Stephanie Witter

#25. I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#26. You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#27. Trust the acting.

Jean-Marc Vallee

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