"When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc."

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Source : "Simon Beaufoy Talks Alternate Ending To ‘127 Hours’ That Was Cut (Poor Lizzy Caplan)" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. January 18, 2011.

Simon Beaufoy

#Real Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Arcs Quotes

“I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.”
“When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like, 'What do I do ... I don't really ... ha-huh ...' Yeah, it's the button on the top right where it always is since the beginning of #*@! time!”
“I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.”
“Hereâ€™s exclusive Channel 5 video of a local man having his brain eaten by a winged gremlin. Local gremlin experts warn thatâ€””
“For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himselfand others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.”
“If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.”
“I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.”
“Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.”

Source : "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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