"The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry."

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Sean O Faolain

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.”
“I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.”
“For me and my films I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters.”

Source : "Film Interview: James Wan Talks The Filmmaking & Truth Behind ‘The Conjuring’, ‘Fast 7’ Plans". Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. July 19, 2013.
“No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.”
“I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.”
“If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.”
“As a generation, Generation X or whatever we were called, we were not being nurtured. We didn't have Obama. We didn't have Bill Clinton. We didn't have any politicians that you could look up to, nor did we have parents.”
“Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.”

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