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Bill Paxton

You don’t really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I’ve been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.
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Gravity Levels Thinking Water
In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it’s all up to you.
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Careers Old Days
Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.
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Destiny Discipline Fate
It’s become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
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Film Popular Song Twists
I’ve always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
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Apple Men Thinking
A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, “This camera’s really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they’re being punched.”
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Camera Character People
I didn’t have a normal background – I was completely demented from a very early age!
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Age Demented Normal
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can’t really compete on a studio level.
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Competition Inspiring Movie
It just seems to me that someone who wants to take on God’s punishment, it just seems a huge egoism to think that he should appoint himself to take care of God’s punishments.
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Egoism God Huge Punishment Seems Someone
It’s very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there’s nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
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Hundred Naked People
I hate tests. It’s a really lousy way to judge a person’s ability.
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Hate Judging Tests
We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it’s not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.
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Art Groups Hammer
It’s always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
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Disappointed Expectations Film
Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can’t forget the audience.
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Feelings Forget Motion Slow
You can find justification for just about everything in the Bible. I think man has got a great ego when it comes to his God, whatever that is.
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About Bible Comes Everything Great Justification Think
Stop your grinnin and drop your linen
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Stop your grinnin and drop your linen

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