Nathan Greno Quotes
Developing a full length feature is much longer process than developing a short. With features you're typically dealing with more characters, plot, emotion, story arc, etc. - a short is the same only much... shorter!
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
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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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With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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For me, it's first about the characters. I look for a character who is intriguing and challenging and different from what I've done before.
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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.
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Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.
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It was so amazing to fall crazily in love and get married and have kids.
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I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.
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American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
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Developing a full length feature is much longer process than developing a short. With features you're typically dealing with more characters, plot, emotion, story arc, etc. - a short is the same only much... shorter!
