Quentin Dupieux Quotes

#1. For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.

William Ralph Inge

#2. I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.

Emma Donoghue

#3. I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting.

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#4. I've been obsessed with making movies since I was 15. I watched a lot of movies when I was young, and I decided that I wanted to do that because I was a passionate kid about watching movies.

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#5. The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.

Sarah Caudwell

#6. That's what happens with most comedies. If you watch 10 minutes and there's no joke, then you're disappointed because you're expecting jokes. The same goes for emotional movies. You have to feel something. If you don't feel anything for 10 minutes, you get bored.

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#7. Louisa, is your life always like this?

Jojo Moyes

#8. Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.

N.D. Wilson

#9. It depends on the way you shoot it. It's something I don't really control. The main goal is to make a funny movie, but then I let my mind go. I get lost sometimes in the writing, trying to find some special zones. That's the excitement of making a movie.

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#10. So many people are killing their childhood. It's like, "Okay, today I've decided I'm gonna be a grown-up, and I'm not a kid anymore." But, that's bullshit. You're still a kid. It makes no sense to kill the kid.

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#11. Getting started is the most difficult thing to do; once you file it out, they rest of the journey is as soft as the straw. Be a good beginner.

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. To me, the movie is more funny if, at the same time, you can think a little bit or dream a little bit.

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#13. Next time you're wearing the 'look at my titties' shirt, and I'm filling the tank.

Mira Grant

#14. History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

James A. Garfield

#15. A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

Voltaire

#16. Around age 18, I decided to start writing my own stuff. I wrote some bad short films and shot them. I tried to make them better and better. I slowly learned how to make movies, and I think I'm still learning.

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#17. I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes. Everything is supposed to make sense. Everything is supposed to be logical.

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#18. I don't like to be on a set and wait three hours, just to make some lighting adjustments. I like to shoot. That's what I want to do. I'd rather shoot something dumb than wait.

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#19. It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.

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#20. If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.

Booker T. Washington

#21. If you have a lemon, make lemonade.

Howard Gossage

#22. When I'm on the set, I take five minutes to find the best angle for a scene, and then we just shoot it and it looks exactly what you see on screen because I don't touch it afterwards. I never think about it, before being on the set. That's my thing. I love to be stuck.

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#23. Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny idea can be turned into something else.

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#24. Big Hug's Y'all!!

Fifi Frost

#25. I always try to be different. I always want to surprise myself.

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#26. It's not luck, Waverly. I mean yeah, to find someone who really gets you, maybe that's luck, but if you treat people like they matter, they remember it.

Brenna Yovanoff

#27. Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#28. I really think that life isn't logical and life isn't always meaningful. I'm just trying to go into that zone without being too random, and just trying to create some new logic [in moviemaking] that feels like dreams.

Quentin Dupieux

#29. Have you forgotten to have a beautiful breakfast in a countryside village? Then, you have forgotten the life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#30. If you lost the love of your life, that's a nightmare.

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