"Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath."

-- William Boyd

#Art Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I kill kings and presidents first, and next all capitalists.”
“I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.”
“The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!”

Source : Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr
“I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.”
“I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.”

Source : "Ezra Miller Comes Out As 'Queer'" by Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. August 16, 2012.
“No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.”
“Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.”
“Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.”

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