Jane Rosenthal Quotes
Tribeca has always celebrated the most exciting new forms of storytelling, from video games to virtual reality.
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.
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Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.
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Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction.
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The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.
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It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published.
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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind-but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate, Are the liberators here?Do I hope or do I fear?For my father and my brother, it’s too late but I must help my mother stand up straight.Are we the last ones left alive?Are we the only human beings to survive? - Red Sector A (1984)
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What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but to actually want to sit down and write. I'm lucky I learned that habit a really long time ago. I credit my mother with that. She was an English teacher, but she was a writer.
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I enjoy comedy and drama. A nice balance of both is great.
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I wrote four novels under the name Amy Silver. The first one was commissioned, and I was given basically the whole plot and the characters. They told me what to do, and I went straight away and did it. After that, I continued, and I was coming up with more my own ideas, although they did steer me.
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I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't change. Storytelling is a primitive tribal function. The elders sat around the fires and told these stories as a way to pass on the 'dos' and the 'don'ts.' That will never change.
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My choices in films are spontaneous.
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It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.
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Tribeca has always celebrated the most exciting new forms of storytelling, from video games to virtual reality.
