"A story is built on characters and reasons."

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Source : "All the Black Swans" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2011.

Steven Amsterdam

#Character Quotes #Stories Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Tattoos are my way of expressing myself without the need for words.”
“It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.”
“Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.”
“Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.”
“Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2015). “Looking Backward”, p.58, Booklassic
“Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you will always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you, gazing on you kindly.”
“So something I've felt I've learned with The Cosmopolitans shoot is using some agility and changing things quickly. That's something I found really useful on this shoot too. The gestation of The Cosmopolitans and this are slightly different from my other films. The script would be done and I'd be cutting it, but I wasn't always writing new material.”
“I make love to the beautiful Maria and you make love to your stick!”

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