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The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers. ”
I love young people. I identify with them. It never was a goal of mine to grow up. ”
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success. ”
I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots. ”
Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've come to realize that 'Avatar's world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen. ”
When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it. ”
I am no longer willing to take parts in films and/or television shows which detract from the 50 years I have spent building my reputation. ”
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. ”
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. ”
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. ”