Tone Quotes
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English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.
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I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.
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My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.
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The tone is so important to a film, and that tone can really make something fall or succeed.
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I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
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I can easily set my tone.
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Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is simply a miniature of the original music, which is creation itself, expressed in tone and rhythm.
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I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.
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On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
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Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story - because there's an inherent voice you're trying to copy (and often to satirize).
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Tone has the living soul.
