Quotes by Seth Gordon - Page 1

I have a healthy amount of humility.
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The best movies are rooted in reality.
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Reality
Rooted
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Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.
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Expecting
Ideas
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I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.
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Identity
Stories
Versus
Who I Am
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I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.
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Crime
Cyber
Hackers
Industry
Warfare
Bit
Fair
Hacker
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I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.
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Approach
Character
Comedy
Stakes
Stories
Individuals
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I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.
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Movie
Actors
Affordable
Filmmaking
Shooting
Software
Pc
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There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.
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Different
Evil
Philosophy
Somewhere
Exist
Empire
Evil Empire
Longer
Spreading
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I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.
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Home
Real
Thinking
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When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.
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Order
Point Of View
Views
Quite A Bit
Requires
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My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.
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Dinner
Dinner Table
Tables
Taught
Conversations
Economists
Table
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We're all vulnerable, and it's all hackable. If someone wants you and has targeted you, you can be taken down, and that fact is really scary.
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Scary
Taken
Want
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A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.
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Character
Hangover
Office Space
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I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.
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Data
Order
Thinking
Agenda
Work Political People
Politicians
Expert
Political Agenda
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I love the unexpected and I think that's why documentary is an attractive genre to me because you don't know where it's going to go, so I tend to involve that as much as possible in the production process.
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Documentaries
Thinking
Unexpected
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I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant.
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Irrelevant
People
Thinking
People Way Important
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I feel like my own background in improv and doing documentaries makes me really comfortable with a situation where you're letting things unfold and you don't have to be a jerk, stomping his feet, trying to get his way on everything.
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Feet
Trying
Way
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In film, you get to take your time and make it right. In TV, it's all about the schedule. The train is moving and you sometimes just don't have time to make things right, which is painful 'cause you know it could be done better and you just have no choice.
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Choices
Done
Moving
Time Better Sometimes
No Choice
Schedule
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People who can't afford their mortgages and have to renegotiate with the bank or something gets repossessed after you worked your whole life. You follow the rules and you do the right thing and you still get screwed. That's what I think a lot of Americans are.
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Mortgage
People
Thinking
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I think Melissa McCarthy is a force of nature. She's just incredible. And it's purely her talent that has rocketed her in such little time from a marvelous supporting role in "Bridesmaids" to being the lead in several films that are coming out this year. She's extraordinary.
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Roles
Thinking
Years
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There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.
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Media
Simple
Talking
Better Way
Dangerously
Politicians
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