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!Nathan Greno
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
Samuel Goldwyn -
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.
Naomi Benaron -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler -
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.
Viggo Mortensen -
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
Zoe Kazan -
The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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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.
Daisy Berkowitz -
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.
Aaron Sorkin -
With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
Garth Ennis -
There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
Walter Cronkite -
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.
J. C. Chandor -
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
Rainn Wilson -
Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
Harold Ramis -
All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
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.
Maika Monroe -
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.
Rachel Kushner -
There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
Patrick Carman
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The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas, so they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it.
Adam Frank -
I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Beauty without expression is boring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Freedom is never given; it is won.
A. Philip Randolph -
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!
Nathan Greno