"Really there's different scales of stories. Sometimes you want to tell one that 20, 30, 40, 50 million people will want to see and hear. Sometimes you do one that you know 150 will want to see on one night. As long as you're telling the right story for the right audience and they're getting something out of it it's essentially the same feeling to me."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

John Buffalo Mailer

#Night Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

Source : Interview in "Writers at Work" (The Paris Review Interviews), 8th Series, 1988.
“Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.”
“I definitely acknowledge that 'The Matrix' and Trinity had an influence on female action-oriented characters in television and in film. I think it's awesome.”

Source : Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 12, 2003.
“That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.”
“When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions. If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.”
“She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.”
“A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.”

Source : "A Wonderful Life : 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit" by Cyrus M. Copeland, (p. 190), 2006.
“I need to create a whole cinematic experience. I think that's what it takes to get the audience to the theater and justify seeing [a movie] on a big screen. You have to give them a cinematic experience.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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