Wesley Earl Craven (Wes Craven) Quotes
It's a thriller, it's definitely not a horror film, but it has enough of the elements that also work in horror films like suspense.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
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They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
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My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
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Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.
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Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.
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For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
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I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.
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The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets.
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The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.
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Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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A narcissism shared by two.
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The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.
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Now, this not only means seeing the troops are fed, clothed and housed properly the easy part, but more importantly, training them to perfection, anticipating their problems and needs while actively anticipating and eliminating problems before they occur.
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I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.
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Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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Warden Baggett, thank you so much. You have been so good to me. I love all of you very much. I will see you all when you get there. I will wait for you.
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It's a thriller, it's definitely not a horror film, but it has enough of the elements that also work in horror films like suspense.
