Stephen J. Cannell (Stephen Joseph Cannell) Quotes
I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well, that's a film thing.' However, even a good joke has three acts.
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It takes three to make a child.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.
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I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
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So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.
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A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.
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If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.
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When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.
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When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.
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I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well, that's a film thing.' However, even a good joke has three acts.
