Rachel Griffiths Quotes
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
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I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.
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I've got to win every race.
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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
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I got discovered off of YouTube.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
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It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
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If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.
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The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.