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"Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size."
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"To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else."
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"Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait."
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"If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong."
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"We are all the construction of a story and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of the plot. ['Everybody his story']"
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"And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."
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"I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do."
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"I don't know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I'm telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it."
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"Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them."
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"That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies."
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"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."
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"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
Film
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
Film
"Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times."
Faith
"The truth will only be told over a career."
Truth
"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
Film
"Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size."
Storytelling
"I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to."
Age
"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
Film
"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
Trouble
"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
Luck
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