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"Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size."
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"I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles."
Boys
"I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most."
Hollywood
"I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy."
Politics
"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
Film
"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
Luck
"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
Trouble
"Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich."
Society
"It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form."
Art
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
Film
"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
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"Don't the great tales never end?""No, they never end as tales," said Frodo. "But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later or sooner."
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"A great story is impossible to forget."
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"At the end of your story, you get down to the purity of it all. It's like distilling something."
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"Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries."
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"Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them."
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"Experience is the catalyst for all great stories."
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"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist."
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"The making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer..."
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"What you need to remember is that there's a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not."
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"When I was a child, I pestered my elders for stories."
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