"The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film."

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Source : "Alessandro Nivola On the Record". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 08, 2010.

Alessandro Nivola

#Real Quotes #Stories Quotes #Research Quotes

“If something scares me then I feel like I have to do it.”
“Everything needs to touch your heart. Everything that touches your heart brings out the deep in you.”
“I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.”
“The Almighty has His own purposes.”
“Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives us our most sought after coin-toss odds. Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.”

Source : Mohnish Pabrai (2011). “The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns”, p.108, John Wiley & Sons
“President Obama filled out his March Madness bracket. You can tell Obama's mind is elsewhere because his top two picks were Israel and Iran.”
“Don't want anything. Then you get everything.”
“...The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.”

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