Luca Guadagnino Quotes

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen.

I love having that creative discussion where, at the end of the day, you both feel better for having done it. Maybe it's a typically Jewish thing, where you sort of go at each other.

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.

You gotta remember: we're musicians... we're just crazy people who can't get along sometimes. I've definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It's part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it - we're lucky we don't eat each other in this industry!

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

Me and my brothers all have different personalities and we definitely clash over living together in a small space.

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.

We can't seem to put out an album without any drama.

Learning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution.

At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.

The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive.

Sometimes you're more involved in controversy, and at other times, you're disconnected.

I would never say don't have an argument.

The chemistry at a table is so important. You must start with a carefully balanced mix of personalities. If the balance is off, and the stakes are too big for some of the players, it kills the game. Too small, and everybody gets bored.

It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

Every small group has at least one 'difficult' person in it. If you don't immediately recognize who that person is -- it's probably you!

Arguments are too much like disputes.

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.