#rite

I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#either #favourite #i #i write #influenced

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#fully #grasp #imagery #necessarily #resonant

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#boring #bus #everyone #get #getting

Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule. ↗

— Gary Ross

#because #catching #consideration #decided #despite

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#like #limiting #myself #someone #very

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#carrying #down #get #i #out

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#perception #point #point of view #someone #view

It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#beyond #book #case #darkness #discovering

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#out #reader #responsibility #somehow #story

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#i #i am #kind #other #people