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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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
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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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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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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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Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it's the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend.
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Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.
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We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.
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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!
