Jon M. Chu Quotes

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• A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get fired, but it's your job to help push things along.

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  Jobs, Fighting, Directors

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• I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.

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  Thinking, Tests, Social Network

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• I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

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  People, Lucky, Stories

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• In all my work, I try to tell great stories that people want to go to the movie theater to watch, or want to turn on, and are compelled to watch it, over and over and over again, and will make a mark when they grow up.

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  Growing Up, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.

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  Pockets, Machines, World

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• For someone like Daniel Radcliffe, it’s really fun to go against your image. He’s such a goody-two-shoes in Harry Potter. I just wanted him to throw off the gloves and be weird and quirky.

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  Fun, Shoes, Two

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• I fell in love with that movie [Now You See Me]. I liked the actors. I thought it was an interesting world. When they called me with the opportunity to direct the next one, the first question I needed to address was, what are we going to do to make it different? How can I add something to the franchise? If I can't add anything, then there's no reason for me to do it.

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  Opportunity, Interesting, Next

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• I can't let fear kill my creative brain. Fear is the killer. Your bad choices come from fear. And I'm constantly combating fear. I'm one of the most fearful people, which may be why I'm so sensitive about it. I combat fear, constantly. So, when something like this happens, it only makes us stronger, but it reminds you that your strength is by being able to fight that stuff off and being okay with failure. If I get everything I wish and I get to make movies for the rest of my life, I'm going to have many failures and I need to be okay with that.

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  Fighting, People, Creative

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• Once you see dance as a weapon - and everyone has a different weapon - it makes dance really interesting.

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  Interesting, Different, Weapons

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• I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

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  Poison, Certain, Really Great

  "Interview: Director Jon M. Chu On 'Extraordinary Dancers', 'G.I. Joe 2', and 'Masters Of The Universe'". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. October 26, 2012.

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• I love 'Dr Strangelove.

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  Drs

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• I don't feel like I need to be on an island to be enjoying myself and relaxing.

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  Islands, Needs, Enjoy

  Source: collider.com

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• I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

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  Dancer

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• Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.

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  Fighting, Doe, Different

  "Director Jon M. Chu Talks Directing Action, Being a G.I. JOE Fan, Getting to Know the Cast, the Soundtrack and Possible PSAs on the Set of G.I. JOE: RETALIATION". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

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  Dancer, Different, Dialect

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• I make movies that I enjoy making and tell stories that I want to see, so it’s hard. You never reverse engineer those things and go, “What would appeal to this or that?” Even if I tried, I don’t know. I’m an all-American kid.

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  Kids, Enjoy

  Source: collider.com

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• I took tap classes growing up.

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  Growing Up, Class, Growing

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• When I'm doing something, it's something that I had a perspective on in my childhood, or now, but it may be different. I always can go back to what I love, but if somebody has a better idea, then I'm all for it.

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  Ideas, Perspective, Childhood

  Source: collider.com

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• You're never going to satisfy everybody.

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• The thing that keeps me interested is that I love stories. I love going to movies and I love watching stuff that sparks ideas in my brain.

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  Ideas, Brain, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

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  People, Trying, Instinct

  Source: collider.com

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• When I'm doing more than one movie because it makes one not the end of the world. It makes me feel like, "Okay, I won. I had a victory on this one, today. And I lost on this one, today." I can keep going back-and-forth.

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  Victory, World, Today

  Source: collider.com

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• I always loved action adventure. It is something I always wanted to do.

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  Adventure, Action, Wanted

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Going after any movie there is a lot of competition to try and get it.

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  Competition, Trying

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I'm not the most sophisticated person. I'm not the smartest person in the world. But, I know what makes me excited about life, from Spielberg movies to Michael Jackson music videos to cartoons on Saturday mornings, which made my childhood.

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  Morning, Childhood, Cartoon

  Source: collider.com

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