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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• Film is anti-language.

  

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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

  Oksana Baiul
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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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• 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
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• I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?

  

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• I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

  

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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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• The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

  

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• I've admired Lawrence master from his choreographer days. I love how he experiments and makes it work. I like his attention to detail and the intrigue in his movies.

  

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• ... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.

  

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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.

  

  Stephen J. Cannell
  • Film
  • Three
  • Acts