"I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories."

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Source : "SXSW: The 8 Best Things Christine Vachon Said at Her Keynote" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. March 17, 2015.

Christine Vachon

#Trying Quotes #Stories Quotes #Filmmaker Quotes

“I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels”
“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
“We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger market share.”
“Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.”
“There's little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.”
“Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.”
“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”
“The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

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