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“Sex is always funny. I don't find it sexy, I find it really horrifying. But it's an act that we need. And that need, that desire, is what makes it really funny.”
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“I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.”
Source : "Immersed in Movies: Jennifer Yuh Nelson Lifts Kung Fu Panda 2" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. December 7, 2011.
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“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.”
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“In terms of finding that first international recognition of my work, coming back to Cannes is such a milestone in my life because it began actually with 'Devdas'.”
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“We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.”
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“I was in a convent for a year.”
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“Pan's Labyrinth works on so many levels that it seems to change shape even as you watch it. It is, at times, a joyless picture, and its pall of sadness can begin to weigh you down.”
Source : Review of Pan's Labyrinth, Salon Magazine, 2006.