September 2011
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john august brilliance
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To me, movie dialogue is what real people would say if they could take a few seconds to think between lines. It’s faster, more direct, with much less filler than normal speech.
- John August.
This saved my dialogue lull.
August 2011
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“The arts is a life of faith. It’s pure faith. People preach about faith who have...”
– Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion (Sept. 19, 2009)
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“While you are walking you would learn more about filmmaking than if you were in...”
– Werner Herzog
Herzog on Herzog
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Guess I should drop out…
(via wernerherzogquotes)
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“You must love to write and bear the loneliness.”
– Robert McKee - STORY (via shelivesshewrites)
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain (via creatie)
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“… 95% of Americans, if you forced them to watch Eraserhead, would want to punch...”
– Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant. (via yourhero)
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“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that...”
– Louis CK (via alexandriasupertramp)
“Below is a track-by-track commentary on kanye’s latest. i wrote it on my...”
– This kinda old post by Heems is super relevant to my hurricane music experience. #WhoWillSurviveInAmerica (via bmichael)
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films
Watched two sneaks in the last two days:
The Debt and Don’t be afraid of the Dark.
The Debt is awesome. A really intense film and great actors all the way through. So impressed by this young ms Jessica Chastain. She is the real deal. To play a young Helen Mirran… go figure. The story is amazing - and as a writer - there is an amazing bit of narrative in the film that is...
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“I don’t feel like I’m a satirist. I don’t even think I ever was, but that label...”
– On today’s Fresh Air, Tom Perrotta talks to Terry Gross about his novels. (via nprfreshair)
Love his books. If you haven’t read them - check them out. All tricky and hard to classify and make you think….
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“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
– Joseph Heller (via yatwriter)
