Dan Trachtenberg famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I spent a long time trying to make it in the commercial world hoping that commercials would then lead to movies. That was a less-travelled path at the time, although it's very well-travelled now.
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I grew up loving Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and Michael Bay and Adrian Lyne.
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I was very excited to hone in on John Goodman. Casting John first really set the tone. He's very good at being terrifying and being hilarious, and I loved the idea of that character not being merely 'moustache-twirly'. I enjoyed being scared by him.
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I've always been a fan of [Mary Elizabeth Winstead's]. She gets to do some fun action-y stuff she brings this gritty swashbuckle to. I think there's a lot of movies that have women in peril running away from the scarier things and then end up being saved by a man, so it's great to see this character MacGyver her way out of situations, whether physically MacGyvering away, or mentally MacGyvering a way out of something. I relate to her more than I relate to most leading men in movies.
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I allow myself to get firmly sucked in. I love that! I come from that.
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I've definitely seen things that have made me laugh. And there's some things that are really smart and like, "Oh man, we should have done that, that's really cool!" And there's some things that are like, "Oh, do they know something? I don't know!" So there's the whole variety of things that are in those theories. But they're cool.
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One of the first cassette tapes I ever purchased was the Rambo III score. I was not allowed to see Rambo, but my mom would allow me to buy the music, so I would listen to that score over and over and imagine the movie. But those limitations and not being able to access those things made me so much more excited about them.
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A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.
-- Dan Trachtenberg
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Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
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It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.
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In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
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If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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