Chris Weitz Quotes

• It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.

  Chris Weitz

  Animal, Opportunity, Way

  "'Golden Compass' Director Chris Weitz Answers Your Questions: Part Ii". November 21, 2007.

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• All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.

  Chris Weitz

  Finals, Looks, Golden

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• The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

  Chris Weitz

  Writing, Strange Places, People

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• To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

  Chris Weitz

  Fighting, Endurance, Overcoming

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't you get it? It's the end of the world! That's exactly when you fall in love. When else?

  Chris Weitz

  Love, Fall, World

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• I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

  Chris Weitz

  Sadness, Epic, Moon

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• People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.

  Chris Weitz

  Falling In Love, Stars, People

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• Modern responses to Cinderella's predicament are interesting. If you're not careful, you'll think, "Well, she's just a big wimp. She should fight for her rights. She should call the government."

  Chris Weitz

  Fighting, Thinking, Rights

  Source: collider.com

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• I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.

  Chris Weitz

  Fire, Rumor, Trying

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• I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.

  Chris Weitz

  Ocean, Love Is, Voice

  "My LA: Chris Weitz On Hidden Neighborhoods, Food Trucks & Malibu". Interview with Lucy Blodgett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2011.

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• I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

  Chris Weitz

  Surfer, Poor

  "My LA: Chris Weitz On Hidden Neighborhoods, Food Trucks & Malibu". Interview with Lucy Blodgett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2011.

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• The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and there would be a struggle between the children and the new wife, in terms of who would inherit what.

  Chris Weitz

  Children, Father, Struggle

  Source: collider.com

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• 'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.

  Chris Weitz

  Fantasy Novels, Ideas, Ironic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.

  Chris Weitz

  Character, Dumped

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• The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

  Chris Weitz

  Stars, War, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's so incredibly special to be able to try to recapitulate that feeling I had when I was sitting in that theater, as a 7-year-old. It's an extraordinary job. I'm incredibly lucky.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• People like to be able to identify a brand, and I don't really have one.

  Chris Weitz

  People, Able, Brands

  Source: collider.com

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