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.Stephen J. Cannell
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It takes three to make a child.
e. e. cummings -
But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
Taylor Hackford -
The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
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 -
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
Orson Welles -
I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
Irrfan Khan
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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.
Baz Luhrmann -
I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
Oksana Baiul -
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham -
There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
Ian Williams Battles -
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
Aaron Eckhart -
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
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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.
Edgar Wright -
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 -
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 -
I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
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.
Vikas Swarup -
Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.
Sandra Oh -
Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.
Adrian Anthony Gill -
We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
J. Michael Straczynski -
We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.
Arthur Kleinman -
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