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David Farrier
"It's easy to get young gay men to tickle each other, right? Let's come up with a challenge: Let's get heterosexual men. How do we do that? We make it a competition, because then it's not gay. That explains the antipathy behind the gay-journalist comment." --
Source : "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.
David Farrier
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“The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.”
Source : René Jules Dubos (1980). “The Wooing of Earth”, Scribner Book Company
“When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.”
“Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.”
Source : Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan
“I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.”
“I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my father's from. I've traveled a lot, and having that sort of background probably increased the chance that I was going to remain curious as an adult about people who are different.”
“Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.”
“The best research is the research that you don't know that you are doing.”
“I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.”
