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.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Child
  • Three
  • Takes

• But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Film
  • Process
  • Glamorous

• The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Man
  • Chinese

• 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.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Community
  • Training

• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Long
  • Way
  • Film

• The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Film
  • Cinema
  • Editing

• I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Me
  • Film
  • Special

• When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Love
  • Film

• I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Events
  • Three

• I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Dance
  • Three
  • Ballet

• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Rules
  • Three

• There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • You
  • Know
  • Three

• I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, and I'll read every single thing about it possible. And then three days later, I'll just forget about it, and I'll be onto something else.

  

  Ed Gamble
  • Single
  • Forget
  • Three

• A film has its own life and takes its own time.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Life
  • Time
  • Film

• 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.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • First
  • Three
  • Sustainable

• When you're struggling to get a feature film off the ground, there's no big overarching tenure plan or anything like that.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Film
  • Plan

• I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Film
  • Years
  • Criticism

• 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.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Film
  • Story
  • Romantic

• I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Film
  • Made
  • Because

• I think your behavior is different when you work on digital or film. It seems that... I feel most focused if I'm working on film.

  

  Juan Antonio Bayona
  • Film
  • Behavior
  • Focused

• Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Play
  • Function
  • Fairs

• What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  

  George Eliot
  • Taken
  • Marriage
  • Virtue

• 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.

  

  Stephen J. Cannell
  • Film
  • Three
  • Acts