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Event cinema is what it is, and I understand why it's successful. It started with things like 'Jaws,' which are extraordinary movies. But what we've lost are great character films which are beautifully directed and had great movie stars in them. Films that were about something rather than about spectacle.

~David Mackenzie

Topics: About Beautifully Character Cinema Directed Event Extraordinary Films Great Great Movie Had Jaws Like Lost Movie Movie Stars Movies Rather Something Spectacle Stars Started Successful Than Them Things Understand Were Which Why

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I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Character Drawn Evolve Out Particularly Protagonist Stories

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With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we wanted to show in the case of Dustin Hoffman's character, Bernstein.

~David Milch

Topics: About Case Character Degradation Had He Idea Joseph Novel Said Show Wanted Write

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I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Book Certainly Character Complete Components Man Me Novel Plot Reader Structure Style Them Themes Think Valid Without You I Think

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Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Always Balloon Because Character Characters Comics Down Funny Get Goes Joke Jokes Just Lead Like Make Observation Right Sometimes Terrible Them True Why Will

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Just in terms of when I got the script, the character I probably liked the least was Big Foster. Because even though he was central to the story and to that world, he was really written to be kind of a brute, a pig, a completely black-and-white bad guy.

~David Morse

Topics: Bad Bad Guy Be Kind Because Big Black-And-White Brute Central Character Even Foster Got Guy He Just Kind Least Liked Pig Really Script Story Terms Though World Written

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I was a teenager and it was tough years for me. Being able to bring myself into a character and live in somebody else's world was so important for me emotionally. I couldn't express things well in my normal life. I was so overwhelmed by my emotions.

~David Morse

Topics: Able Being Bring Character Else Emotionally Emotions Express Important Life Live Me Myself Normal Normal Life Overwhelmed Somebody Teenager Things Tough Well World Years

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I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.

~David Naughton

Topics: Always Bad Character Films Go Good Horror Horror Films Interested Might Night Place Scary Seem Setting Something Story Take Then Those Weather

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An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Adaptation Book Character Find Idea Illuminate Know Leads Missing Original Out Still Theme

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The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

~David O. Russell

Topics: Authenticity Character Closer Doing Emotional Feel Go How Less Matter Now People Stay Wrong You I Feel

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