"In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller."

-- Garth Stein

#Stories Quotes #Elements Quotes #Documentary Films Quotes

“Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.”
“I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each otherâ€™s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.”
“I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children's teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn't live without my whale.”
“The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical - our values, memories, identity, sense of humor. Since the soul represents the parts of the human being that are not physical, it cannot get sick, it cannot die, it cannot disappear. In short, the soul is immortal.”
“A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.”
“I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it.”

Source : "Buffalo boy" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.
“Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.”
“How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.”

Source : Caroline Anne Southey (1836). “The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses”, p.178

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