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In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

~Amish Tripathi

Topics: Ancient Ancient Times Around Epics Philosophy Singing Times Were Which

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Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.

~Baz Luhrmann

Topics: Africa Asia Contemporary Epic Epics Hard Historically Make Places Realities Set Those Today West Wild Wild West You

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I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

~Baz Luhrmann

Topics: Always Arabia Between Emotional Epics Faraway Get Lawrence Lost Loved Old Passion Place Relationship Scarlett Simple Story Tell Tumultuous Whether

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If you look back at the great classics and the epics and myths, they were for everyone. Different people got different things from them, but everyone was invited to participate.

~Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Topics: Back Classics Different Different People Different Things Epics Everyone Got Great Invited Look Myths Participate People Them Things Were You

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What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'

~Chris Evans

Topics: About Am Big Blood Diamond Epics Fall Geek Glory Last Legends Like Love Movies Out Samurai Stuff Sweeping Watch I Love

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New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles there. Television is making the kind of epics and genres that the movie studios used to make, and often doing it better with more complex narratives and corresponding budgets.

~David S. Goyer

Topics: Actor Amazon Basically Because Better Budgets Complex Corresponding Doing Emerging Epics Film Genres Hulu Kind Make Making More Movie Narratives Netflix New Often Platforms Roles Studios Television Towards Used Xbox

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When people think of biblical movies, they imagine sweeping epics like 'The Ten Commandments.' But 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' is essentially a documentary about Jesus. It made me aware of how real life and personal experience can create more breathtaking, sensitive cinema than more sophisticated techniques.

~Derek Cianfrance

Topics: About According Aware Bible Breathtaking Cinema Commandments Create Documentary Epics Essentially Experience Gospel How Imagine Jesus Life Like Made Matthew Me More Movies People Personal Personal Experience Real Real Life Sensitive Sophisticated Sweeping Techniques Ten Ten Commandments Than Think

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Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: Asteroid Belt Deals Distant Empires Epics Fiction Future Lots Past Places Remote Science Science Fiction Times Trips

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What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: Epics Everything Hard Kind Write I Write Sf

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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Communication Created Element Epics Even Exists Language Literature Primary Riddles Societies Songs Tool Which

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