Michael Dougherty quotes

Michael Dougherty quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I always try to take projects I'm genuinely interested and passionate about versus just trying to take projects for the money.”
-- Michael Dougherty

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“I like the horror community because they're subversive. They question things. If something is held back from them, especially if they've heard that its good, they seek it out.”
-- Michael Dougherty

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“Everyone has gone trick or treating, everyone carves a jack o lantern with their parents. If you really look at the stories they sort of focus on what Halloween is like at different stages of your life.”
-- Michael Dougherty

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“So when it came to making the movie I guess I had a really good sense innately of what it was that makes Halloween really great. In that it is a holiday for everybody now. When I was a kid I felt like it was mostly for kids, maybe that's just the way it always is when you're a kid, but I think now more than ever it's for grown ups too. When I was a kid I don't think there were quite as many sexy adult costumes and we definitely didn't have all these Spirit Halloween stores that pop up every October.”
-- Michael Dougherty

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“It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.”

Source : In Observer 17 Aug. 1986
“I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.”
“Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.”

Source : Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes
“I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.”
“Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.”
“Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.”
“Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.”
“Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.”

Source : Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.175, Simon and Schuster
“In big companies projects have to scale and Lean Startup help us to do it”
“We sell to an affluent demographic, so it is important for us to project a professional image.”

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