"India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart."

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Source : "Life on the hard shoulder" by Simon Beaufoy, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2008.

Simon Beaufoy

#Heart Quotes #Pride Quotes #Generosity Quotes

“I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story in cinematic ways, but theater is a much more elusive craft.”
“Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.”
“Writing a story starts out as a puzzle in your mind, of "What is it I'm fantasizing about right now that makes me think this is going to be worth years of work?" And you just keep pushing and trying to figure it out, and once you've hit on these resonances... Then as a screenwriter, it can be dangerous if you get too hooked on just finding things that resonate with each other, because then you risk getting into stuff that's too neat, and becomes stifled as storytelling. But you do feel like you're on the right track when you start to have a sense of what goes with what.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.”

Source : "Biographical Memoirs V.83" by Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes, National Academies Press, (p. 203), 2003.
“The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.”
“While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or one hundred years into the future. In doing so, we must not resort to superficial measures. Instead, it is imperative to engage in true reforms that ascertain the state of society we seek to achieve.”
“The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.”
“If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.”

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