Sarah Gadon Quotes

It's a real gift to work with my sister. We obviously have such a shorthand communicating with each other that it makes the process easier. And from growing up together and watching so many films together, we ended up with pretty similar taste.

My readers and I, we have the same taste, and it's awesome. They'll tell me about stuff that I haven't heard of.

When I meet certain filmmakers, sometimes you sit down and you do have some kind of shorthand. It can be fun to see them as someone who has been through similar experiences, but also as someone who just loves film. You can talk with them about films in a way that feels really free.

COMMUNICATION: If I had to pick a first rule of communication-the one practice above all others that opens the door to connecting with others-it would be to look for common ground. Too often people see communication as the process of transmitting massive amounts of information to other people. But that's the wrong picture. Communication is a journey. The more that people have in common, the better the chance that they can take that journey together.

People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'

I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak to each other - that music can speak to cinematography can speak to writing and back again.

Neil Gaiman swooped into my life though another friend, Jason Webley, who knew we were fans of each other's work and introduced us via email. Neil and I, like me and Ben, just hit it off instantly.

It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.

It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

J.J. Abrams and I met, and we just had this incredible kind of vibe between us.

I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.

Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.

There was something really special about working with Lena Dunham. I immediately felt very comfortable with her, and we spoke the same language.

'Awkward' implies both solidarity and implication. Nobody is exempt.

Every sport, every profession, every group united by a single passion draws on a lexicon that is uniquely theirs, and theirs for a reason.

It's really important to have subjects that people all over the world are familiar with, and the Disney films are really great that way.

I am lucky to have found an artistic companion in Anurag; there is a sense of belonging.

To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.