Nic Pizzolatto (Nicholas Austin Pizzolatto) Quotes

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

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• The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movies

• A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Politics
  • Realist
  • Optimist

• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Funny
  • New
  • Some

• I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Want
  • You
  • Message

• If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Discipline
  • Criticism

• But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Money
  • Financial
  • Problems

• Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.

  

  Imran Khan
  • You
  • Possible
  • Fast

• Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Marriage
  • Romantic
  • Nothing

• I have lost a lot of clothes over the years... Probably the oldest garment that I still have would be my Union Jack jacket from John Galliano's spring/summer 1993 show.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Lost
  • Years
  • Summer

• I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I've been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Money
  • True
  • Dream

• In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Relationship
  • Sex
  • Old

• Any young man coming of age has a lot to go through. Peter Parker certainly has a lot of responsibility, and without doubt, so does Pippin - his role, his life, and how he is going to perform it. It's all about choices and how we make them.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • Life
  • Age
  • Responsibility

• We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.

  

  Dorothy Height
  • Life
  • Opportunity

• I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.

  

  Diplo
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• People who go to concerts hear Beethoven's symphonies hundreds of times, but 'Star Trek' is recorded, so it's not played all the time.

  

  David Newman
  • People
  • Time
  • Star

• From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Inspiration

• Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Story
  • Changed
  • Fiction

• You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

  

  Dr. Seuss
  • Help
  • Alone

• For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

  

  Nic Pizzolatto
  • Character
  • Story
  • Demand