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The very first film I ever made, when I was seven years old, when I got my hands on a camcorder, was a remake of 'Poltergeist,' which I hadn't seen yet because my parents wouldn't allow me to. But I made my own version of it, and it starred my brother in a bed sheet.

~David Lowery

Topics: Allow Because Bed Brother Ever Film First Got Hands Made Me My Own Old Own Parents Remake Seen Seven Sheet Starred Version Very Which Years

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I love dialogue, but I'm also terrified of it. In all my movies, I've done my best to cut out as much dialogue as possible. I love the spaces in those silences. Even in 'Pete's Dragon,' I was so happy that the first twenty minutes have about five or six lines of dialogue.

~David Lowery

Topics: About Also Best Cut Dialogue Done Dragon Even First Five Happy Lines Love Minutes Movies Much Out Possible Silences Six Spaces Terrified Those Twenty I Love

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A novel is a big thing. It's difficult to hold the whole story in your mind, especially when you've finished a first draft and are still giddy from the flow of creative juices.

~David Macinnis Gill

Topics: Big Big Thing Creative Difficult Draft Finished First Flow Giddy Hold Juices Mind Novel Still Story Thing Whole You Your

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I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.

~David Mackay

Topics: Cannot Come Dream Experience First First Time Get Space Space Travel Time Travel True Up Wait Will

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I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.

~David Mackenzie

Topics: Avoid Because Career Cliche Felt First Genre Like Part Some Spent Trying Way

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I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.

~David Maraniss

Topics: About Am Arc Beginning Book Carry Dramatic End First Illuminate Itself Larger Launch Look Me Reader Second Story Subject Themes Things Through Two Weave Will World I Am

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First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Argument First First Of All In The Past Lived Make Nobody Past Thing You

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I write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up and let it sit, sometimes for a long time, and then when I'm ready, I work on revision.

~David Means

Topics: Draft Drafts First Got Hand House Long Long Time Often Out Ready Revision Sit Sometimes Somewhere Then Time Type Up Work Write I Write

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I'm not sure if a writer should talk about themes. Themes arrive out of the deeper structure and concerns, but to me, the main thing is getting it down right, writing about specific characters in specific predicaments, and finding a way to be true to the story itself, not only in the first burst of draft but in the revision, too.

~David Means

Topics: About Arrive Be True Burst Characters Concerns Deeper Down Draft Finding First Getting Itself Main Main Thing Me Only Out Revision Right Should Specific Story Structure Sure Talk Themes Thing Too True Way Writer Writing

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The truth is I try to show up each day available to do the work that God or whatever it is that's making, you know, the solar system work wants me to do. And I expect when he wants me to stop, I'll be the first to find out.

~David Milch

Topics: Available Be The First Day Each Each Day Expect Find First God He Know Making Me Out Show Solar Solar System Stop System Truth Truth Is Try Up Wants Whatever Work You

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