"Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks."
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"War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you."
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"I once said that effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. The same can be true between and individual and their camera. What you're shooting is between you and you and nobody else. Outcomes are for the audience. The action is yours alone."
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"I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle."
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"The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page."
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"I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for me doesn't reflect the world, it extends the world, so that it becomes larger and more fantastic and less mired in this school shooting bullshit. It actually builds a future - that's how evolution occurs."
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"The process for doing voice work goes by much quicker as opposed to shooting a feature. You can pretty much go in and knock it out in a day or two. It feels very natural for me to express myself using only my voice, so it wasn't too difficult."
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"I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them."
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"I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again."
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"Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting."
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"I don't want anybody shooting, but I can't stop it."
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"If they found a way to make shooting in 240p expensive, it would be trendy."
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"The truth of the matter is that the problem of police shootings and reactions in the community."
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"For me, personally, the most difficult moments had to do with not just terrorist attacks, but also shootings."
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"You have to know what you're shooting. Don't just make your movie in the editing room and just get everything you can on the day."
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"The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe."
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"Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective."
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"Well, thanks for not shooting anyone, I guess", said Marcus. "My contribution was to somehow refrain from peeing myself. You can thank me later."
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"Skeet shooting is probably more satisfying if you really hate skeets."
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"My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday, and getting to act in them."
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