Eric Heisserer Quotes
Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
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I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
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When it comes to creativity and to leadership, we need introverts doing what they do best.
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Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
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The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.
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The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
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It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
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I do a little bit of minimal brow wrangling myself. I get the strays out of the way.
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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
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We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment.
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I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.
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My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.
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The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'
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Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.
