"Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity."

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Source : "If You Only Visit One Weird Museum In 2016, Let It Be This One" by Parker Hilton, uproxx.com. March 11, 2016.

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“When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story.”
“To me, Kane's always been a good guy, a good teammate. I think now he's got a girlfriend. You can tell, he's 24, turning 25, he's not 18 or 19 anymore. It's kind of fun seeing him and Toews get a little bit older, have girlfriends. They're starting to stay in on a Friday night, watch a movie instead.”
“The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.”

Source : Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The producers and I first talked about the Big Fish musical, right before we did the first test screening of the movie. I said, "I think there's a Broadway musical here." And really, from that day, we started figuring out how we would do it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.”
“To get rid of villains and knaves, it is necessary to give them a way out. If you don't give them any leeway at all, they will be like trapped rats. If every way out is closed to them, they will chew up everything good.”
“When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled like abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already another life.”
“Barack Obama's mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months.”

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