"If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters."

-- Dino De Laurentiis

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“To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.”
“I don't come from a flashy film background. TV's been a great home for me, and being able to do that work kind of unnoticed, and not putting that out in the foreground was perfectly fine for me. I just continue to want to make sure that that's what it's about. I think when you start spinning out on what other people are doing and trying to chase something, you're really on a one-way ticket to things not working out the way you want them to.”

Source : "How Cinemax’s ‘Quarry’ pulled off the year’s best-directed TV sequence". Interview With Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. October 28, 2016.
“Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.”
“Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.”
“There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.”
“It is better to give a lick than receive one.”

Source : Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books
“It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.”
“Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.”

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