Top 66 Lexi Alexander Quotes

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I like doing violent movies.

I like doing violent movies.
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Maybe the biggest award show of the largest entertainment importer in the world needs an economic incentive to embrace diversity. Indeed, maybe we should boycott the show and pressure advertisers to do the same. Or maybe the Academy should learn the lesson of history and change because it’s the right thing to do.
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You can be Michael Moore and make ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,’ but that’s hitting people over the head, and a lot of Americans don’t like to be hit over the head. I want to make films that make people walk out and say, ‘Wow, I really question if this is all right.’
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I thrive on impossible odds – always have.
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Everybody likes to drink a Coke once in a while; it’s when we run out of everything else to drink and we’re only left with Coke that we need to start worrying.
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I have a lot of guy friends, from martial arts and film, and soccer. I actually barely know women.
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Money spent by Hollywood to fight piracy: hundreds of millions of dollars.
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It’s very hard to shame people in Hollywood into anything because they don’t often feel that kind of shame.
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For every IP block, DRM, and who-knows-what security feature Hollywood spends thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on, some piracy kid will undo it for free and within a couple of minutes.
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Frank Castle knows only two sides: Good and Evil. There is no grey zone for him.
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I’ve pitched movies to all of the major studio heads in my time.
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Almost everybody agrees that the Academy has to become more diverse. Even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences knows this, which is why, in 2013, it announced it would extend its membership quotas in an attempt to bring more women and minorities into the organization.
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I love hand-to-hand, and I love putting on these fights; that’s the background I come from.
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I always miss any kind of constant, especially now that I’m a film-maker who travels all the time. I’m always tempted to go to Catholic churches, although I despise the religion. But you want to go there just because it’s the one thing in your life that’s never changed.
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When I was pitching ‘Hooligans,’ with a budget of $15 million, most people said they don’t want to see a picture about soccer thugs.
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People would go from village to village with their books in a time of poverty and disease. They would get people around them, and for an hour, these storytellers would change people’s lives. I’d always thought I was a reincarnation of that. That’s who I want to be.
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The criminalization of file sharing is pathetic. It’s so pathetic, it’s almost funny. Imagine if the radio people would have lobbied for a federal law enforcement agency to raid all homes for illegal transmissions of moving picture experiments in order to stop the invention of television. It’s ludicrous.
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‘Deadpool’ is massively successful because they made a very unique movie. That uniqueness and originality, try to imitate that. Not, ‘How about let’s try to do ‘Deadpool’ on a train.’
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Religion is all good, but we are almost back to medieval times now, where we are obsessed with going into religious wars and electing our politicians based on their religious statements.
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You can’t find jewelry on me.
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You cannot make a living doing independent films.
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I’m not someone who throws the towel in, although I think there are many times when I could have and should have thrown the towel in, and nobody would have thought any worse of me.
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I don’t like people telling me what to do.
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It’s one of my obsessions to come up with ways to reimagine establishing shots in new, non-boring ways. Shots that have energy and excitement.
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Bottom line – American history tells us that where there is a will, there will always be a way to achieve quick and fast inclusion.
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When 93 percent of our stories are told by white men, it’s an issue. And if those white men go on and tell the stories the way they see their world, which is all white, then it’s an even bigger problem.
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I say this often, but ‘Supergirl’ is the best experience in my entire career.
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Being into comic books is definitely an Americana thing.
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My brother took me to my first football match when I was five, and I quickly acquired a passion for it: once you’ve walked into a football ground, you know there’s nothing comparable to it.
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I really like Greg Rucka’s work. I loved ‘Lazarus,’ and I loved ‘Stumptown.’
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I was pretty certain I’d stay in TV rather than returning to the feature world because the material just seems so much better in TV, especially in drama, but then ‘Crossface’ came my way. A heartbreaking, true story about the dark side of wrestling… I couldn’t say no to that.
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Please dox me. You don't even need to dox me - I'll giv

Please dox me. You don’t even need to dox me – I’ll give you my address and wait for you by my doorstep.
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The people at Cabot Guns are a rare breed of geniuses and artists in a vast gun world.
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In L.A., every day, I see people taking other people’s jobs, and they don’t care whether that person is married and has two kids. People have no morals here.
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I’m not a very girlie girl.
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I understand it must be hard to realize that the playing field you are collecting all your trophies from is not a level playing field, but that doesn’t mean you can just make inaccurate statements.
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There’s a lot of talk now about the PC police, and ‘why is everything bad?’ It isn’t. What it is, is that marginalized and oppressed people who have never had a soapbox, who have never been given a microphone, suddenly have a microphone.
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Until I was on Twitter, trust me: I was completely wiped off everybody’s consciousness in Hollywood.
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If women choose guerilla style filmmaking or new media productions, etc., all power to them. But if they’re there because ‘Big Hollywood’ won’t let them in, then we’re moving further and further away from equality.
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As a director, you need the Saul Zaentz type of producers. Zaentz was a guy who literally capped the storm outside of the director so that they could do their job. That’s a great producer.
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I think we need to stop looking at the file-sharing community with disgust and instead ask ourselves what we can learn from them.
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Joel Schumacher fired me from ‘Batman & Robin.’ I don’t think anybody knows that. I was having trouble with these contact lenses that were supposed to make your eyes glow under blacklight.
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I look back now and think, what was I doing, moving to Hollywood with $2,000 and a duffel bag? But there is no money in martial arts competitions, and in Hollywood, there is an outlet for those skills. And I have always been pretty fearless.
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I swear, if anyone near me even so much as whispers the sentence ‘Women probably don’t want to direct,’ my fist will fly as a reflex action.
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My dad is Arab. I’m not Muslim, but half of family is, so I see a lot of injustice happening in the portrayal of Muslims that they don’t have any heroes.
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One of my short films was about a boxer.
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Being half-Palestinian comes with its own challenges, especially after 9/11 and also, working in Hollywood. But denying my own father, the three siblings I have on my father’s side, I would essentially be destroying my own essence. So I decided I’m going to be me.
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If someone is poor in India, they should be able to watch the same films as rich people.
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When I was nominated for an Oscar and seated next to Martin Scorsese, there was nothing in my mind that made me think, ‘Hey, in three years maybe I’ll make another remake of ‘Punisher.”
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Let me make something clear: There are very few things Hollywood is right about. This is a very corrupt, elitist industry that breeds favoritism and fails people up the career ladder.
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In martial arts, for every attack, there is a counter you can throw. Somebody traps you, you can throw a hook. But there is no counter for bias.
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I’m a special case: I’m a former stuntwoman and former kickboxing champion, but you couldn’t be more overqualified for the job. I cannot be the base level for what women have to do to be trusted with action, because the guys don’t have that base level.
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When I first arrived here, after spending years as a competitive fighter and training U.S. Marines in hand-to-hand combat, Hollywood is the last place I would have expected to find such blatant bias and discrimination.
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The great thing about a reboot is, you can learn from the past if you care enough.
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I knew I needed to make a studio film – not for any financial reason, but because, as a filmmaker, and especially as a female filmmaker, you have to break through the glass ceiling.
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Movies and TV are America’s No. 1 export. So if our No. 1 export is all male, all white, then there’s only one point of view. And I just think it’s really important that as Americans – I’m a new American, but I am an American – that we don’t portray ourselves to the world so one-sided and exclusive.
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There was a choice of being a director who’s more familiar with the technicality of doing a movie, like learning about the camera and filters and setup, or being a director who can actually talk to actors. And I always wanted to be an actor’s director.
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Women in Hollywood have no male allies. There are some who pretend to be on our side, but yeah, not really. They may say the right thing because, after all, they’re liberals, and that’s a public image they’d like to keep up.
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