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“Yeah, it's just a lame term. I wish it was "movie star." That's a much better term than celebrity.”

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Jeff Vespa, born on January 17, 1970, is a renowned photographer known for his work capturing street culture and celebrity portraits. His images are celebrated for their ability to convey emotion and story. more

“That was my experience with everybody in the book. That was what was so cool. It's just an excuse to hang out with people. It's not for a movie; it's not for a magazine. No one's here telling us what to do. We're at my house shooting. I just get to go, "What do you want to do today?" We're only there because we want to be there because of each other. There's no other reason.”

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Author:Jeff Vespa

“My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.”

Identity Starting Starting Point Foreign Places

Author:Rirkrit Tiravanija

“When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.”

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Author:Rirkrit Tiravanija

“One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.”

Firsts Language My Own Struggle Issues

Author:Rirkrit Tiravanija

“I never give too much thought to the idea of universality.”

Giving Ideas Too Much Universality

Author:Rirkrit Tiravanija

“Women in Thai society have been placed in the space of the home. It is possible that women have assuredly taken up that place without thinking too critically about it.”

Thinking Has Beens Home Space Taken Thai

Author:Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

“It was practically with people with strings. There was no CG involved, it was just painfully taking Collin [Farrell] and Jessica Biel and putting them upside-down, we built the set upside-down and just try to twist perspective to make it all seem like zero gravity. And it was one of the most difficult things I've ever shot.”

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Author:Len Wiseman

“I think that it drives from an emotional connection with everybody that pulls you through all of those events, whether it's the events or what would be more the action, or I guess the visual effects side of it. So it always starts with me from - emotionally - 'Why do you care about the people who are going through what they're going through?' Because it takes a hell of a lot to put them through that. So you better care for them when they're doing it.”

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Author:Len Wiseman

“With Die Hard it was just something that I, you know, I grew up with those movies. I made a Die Hard movie with my friends in my backyard during high school. It was terrible.”

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Author:Len Wiseman

“It was Die Hard in my father's workshop. And so when that opportunity came up, the possibility of doing it, it's more the teenager in me who says that, 'I have to, of course I'm going to.' So that's the fun of reinventing, or just getting involved in things that really, actually loved as a kid growing up wanting to grow up to be a director.”

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Author:Len Wiseman

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