Al Duncan Quotes

That definitely I feel is part of my generation: social networking, communication over the Internet, whether it's Skype or IRC or some form of text-based chat, text messaging.

You do look at a lot of movies and many characters seem to be interchangeable.

The thing is that Warcraft has so much story available to it. For the fans, there are some key stories they really want to see on screen. I won't be doing those.

I do enjoy the puzzle-solving aspect of making a movie.

There are things which need to be shown in the trailer in order to let the audience know what kind of film it is that they're going to be expecting to see.

Here in the UK the audience immediately reacts and they get the fact that: "What would be the most annoying thing in the world?" A Chesney Hawkes alarm clock!

I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.

I was massively jealous but also excited when Tarantino did Inglourious Basterds, I'm a huge guys on a mission fan. Those kind of movies.

Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's got so many stories and anecdotes.

We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.

Every election, Mickey Mouse looks better and better as President.

I know I'm part of the changing process of the way we look at things.

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

When somebody say no, it's a red flag to a bull to me.

I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just being given the freedom to do something.

As I found out making this last movie ["Method"], if you ever do things in an unusual, different way, you got to fight because there's no way people will let you.

I actually am always a music first person

I privilege the music over the lyrics

Happy music doesn't tend to move me much

Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid.

I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record

I make the kind of music I like

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

I started playing music at a pretty young age

I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.

Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.

The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.

Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don't belong.

Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.

I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.' Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not Adam,' she said, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. 'God.

That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do.

Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.

One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.

Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

Nothing holds love together like shared vice or collusive perversion.

Grace only exists to be fallen from.

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

I'm too conceited for therapy.

Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.

My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.

If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.