"As a director you have to be at 30,000 ft objectively looking at everything, wondering if you're making the right objective, emotional, story, character choices. As the writer, while you're asking all of those same questions, you're also forced by the nature of what writing is to be looking at everything under a microscope. That's the difference between the two jobs."

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Alex Kurtzman

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”
“The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.”
“You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.”
“I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.”
“Dad!" he shouted, loud enough to make my ears ring. "Dad! You need to get down here!" (Derek) Chloe held open the door and whispered to me, "I could say he's not always like this, but I'd be lying.”
“Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.”
“I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.”
“We're not a product of time. We are a product of eternity.”

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