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“I have never sent an email in my life. I never received an email. I have two buttons I can touch—the weather and the Huffington Post.”

Woody Allen

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source: “Older, Mellower, But Still Woody,” interview by Rachel Dodes, Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2012.

category: communication, e-mail, film, iPhone

medium: Interview

“I remember getting one script, and the people said, ‘Okay, well, it needs some help with the plot, the pace, the characters and the dialogue.’ And I said, ‘What did you like about it, the typing?'”

John Sayles

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source: “John Sayles Interview,” The Star-Ledger (New Jersey), August 14, 2011.

category: criticism, film, revision, script

medium: Interview

“The whole time I’ve been building my audience I’ve also been trying to unbuild the walls that come with having an audience, with having power. The whole point is to be able to feel more, to connect more, and yet in some ways having power runs at cross-purposes to this. Maybe I feel more just by sitting with a friend. And can I make a career, as a filmmaker and performer, that makes this sitting-with-a-friend feeling more possible, for each member of the audience and for myself? Yes! I say yes.”

Miranda July

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source: “Miranda July,” interviewed by Rachel Kushner, BOMB magazine, Issue 92, Summer 2005.

category: audience, connection, film, performance

medium: Interview

“In the forbidden recess of the cave, there’s a footprint of an eight-year-old boy next to the footprint of a wolf. Did a hungry wolf stalk the boy or did they walk together as friends?”

Werner Herzog

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source: Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011), quoted on Studio 360, April 29, 2011.

category: animal, art, cave, film, prehistory

medium: documentary film

“Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.”

Aaron Sorkin

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source: acceptance speech for best adapted screenplay, at the 83rd Academy Awards, February 27, 2011.

category: animal, film, Oscars, respect

medium: speech

“Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away.”

Paul Simon

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source: from his song “Kodachrome,” quoted in “For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas,” by A. G. Sulzberger, The New York Times, December 29, 2010.

category: film, kodachrome, photography

medium: newspaper article

“Clint [Eastwood] is incredibly instinctive and he’s anti-neurosis. It’s like antimatter. He’s totally without neurosis. The set of Hereafter was one of happiest places I’ve ever been. It comes from trusting yourself and eliminating fear.”

Peter Morgan

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source: “Eastwood Breaks Another Mold,” by Charles McGrath, The New York Times, October 13, 2010.

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category: Clint Eastwood, creative process, fear, film, matter, neurosis

medium: newspaper article

“I don’t storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot—on the air, as we say—at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation. So many surprising things happen on the set, and I have the feeling that storyboarding might tend to close your mind to the accidental.”

Arthur Penn

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source: “Arthur Penn, Director of ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ Dies,” by David Kehr, The New York Times, September 29, 2010.

category: accident, creative process, film, movie, spontaneity, storyboard

medium: Obituary

“Movies can’t correct human injustice all by themselves, but they can show it, they can touch you while showing it, and they can seed ideas and wake up dormant minds. For a medium that began — pretty much in my early childhood — as a few flickering images on a nickelodeon machine, that’s pretty powerful stuff.”

Irving Ravetch

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source: “Irving Ravetch, Screenwriter, Dies at 89,” by Bruce Weber, The New York Times, September 21, 2010.

category: art, film, image, injustice, movie

medium: obituary

“The only screenplays that aren’t tampered with are the ones that aren’t made. Making a movie is an ensemble act. Writers are not authors out there. And scripts are not books. They’re blueprints. You work with others or you’re gone.”