Michael Dougherty famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I always try to take projects I'm genuinely interested and passionate about versus just trying to take projects for the money.
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I like the horror community because they're subversive. They question things. If something is held back from them, especially if they've heard that its good, they seek it out.
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Everyone has gone trick or treating, everyone carves a jack o lantern with their parents. If you really look at the stories they sort of focus on what Halloween is like at different stages of your life.
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So when it came to making the movie I guess I had a really good sense innately of what it was that makes Halloween really great. In that it is a holiday for everybody now. When I was a kid I felt like it was mostly for kids, maybe that's just the way it always is when you're a kid, but I think now more than ever it's for grown ups too. When I was a kid I don't think there were quite as many sexy adult costumes and we definitely didn't have all these Spirit Halloween stores that pop up every October.
-- Michael Dougherty
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It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
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I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
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Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
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I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
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Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.
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Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.
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In big companies projects have to scale and Lean Startup help us to do it
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We sell to an affluent demographic, so it is important for us to project a professional image.
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