Lewis Carroll Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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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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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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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
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I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
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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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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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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 worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
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If a film is suitable for family viewing, it should remain so, and if a film has some adult content, it should remain so, and these genres should never be mixed and spoil the vision of the story teller.
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I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.
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It would be great to do a story and get somebody who is innocent out of jail. That's a wonderful thing.
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We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.
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Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess
