February 2012
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“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.”
– Philip K. Dick
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“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of...”
– Steve Martin
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“You may create a magnificent cinematic moment or even an entire film based on...”
– Miguel Machalski
January 2012
13 posts
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“The beauty of short films is it allows you to make mistakes.”
– Jason Reitman
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“At every single moment, every single person wants something. Often many things,...”
– Charlie Kaufman
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“Storytelling is inherently dangerous. If you consider a traumatic event in your...”
– Charlie Kaufman
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“Now this is me for a while.”
– Charlie Kaufman
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“Here’s the one thing I know about the thing you’re certain about; you’re wrong.”
– Charlie Kaufman
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“How many pounds of disbelief will you ask me to suspend before this thing is...”
– Tony Gilroy
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“I think we try to be experts because we’re scared; we don’t want to feel foolish...”
– Charlie Kaufman
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“The surprise is not the story”
– Ridley Scott
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“Movies are about what characters do and say, not who they were before the story...”
– John August
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“The idea for something is the easiest part of writing. An idea is just the...”
– Scott Frank
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“If I get stuck it means I haven’t done my homework on the characters. I don’t...”
– Scott Frank
December 2011
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“I grew up with the notion that copying was terrible. I wish I hadn’t. I would...”
– Betty Swords
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“If it’s not funny it has to be super compelling in another way.”
– Louis C.K.
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“I think you’re doing pretty good if you can get 70 per cent of what you want.”
– David Fincher
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“Your point of view is all you’ve got.”
– David Fincher
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“I have certain standards - sometimes I hit them and sometimes I don’t. I...”
– Steven Soderbergh
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“If you’re sitting around thinking what other people think about your work,...”
– Steven Soderbergh
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“I don’t think people understand how much time it takes to draw -anything-.”
– C.C. Beck
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“The story doesn’t have emotion— the characters do.”
– Miguel Machalski
November 2011
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“Ass and chair.”
– Tony Gilroy
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“I don’t ask that the audience like what I do, but I insist that they...”
– Steven Soderbergh
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“I’d say that someone who draws comics for a living is very likely a guy or gal...”
– Daniel Clowes
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“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“I myself am a work of fiction.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“I always think that everyone else is having a really good time, and I’m...”
– Steven Soderbergh
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“I’m happy because I know that this is happy. I believe that people are...”
– Jerry Seinfeld
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“How does he know what’s important? I could carve a better man out of a...”
– Philip Castle, in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle”
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