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Storytelling Quotes

"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink"

"Any film that can be described in one sentence is not a real movie."

"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them."

"Nothing has really happened until it has been described"

"It is my aim, and every poet's, to have each work as a whole and each separate paragraph too, to be the whole story, with beginning, middle, climax, and end."

"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."

"Anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news at you."

"The challenge with film is to blend the logical with the emotional."

"The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting."

"Some stories are true that never happened."

"I find that in the process of making a film you’re constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning"

"I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with little screenplays and ideas and potential novels."

"One is allowed to change the past, but only in the libraries."

"All art is autobiographical; all meaning is linguistic; all narratives are ideoplastic."

"The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts "

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