Nathan Greno Quotes
Animation story boarding works differently than live action story boarding. The story crew along with a writer really does shape and create the film - the world and it's characters. We meet almost every day and brainstorm the plot of the film. It's a highly collaborative process - and we continue to improve the story until we literally run out of time.
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Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
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All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
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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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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
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Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and tell a story.
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
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If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.
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Animation story boarding works differently than live action story boarding. The story crew along with a writer really does shape and create the film - the world and it's characters. We meet almost every day and brainstorm the plot of the film. It's a highly collaborative process - and we continue to improve the story until we literally run out of time.
