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The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
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The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Interviewed J. Rentilly (sept. 2002) -
The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.
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The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.
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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right.
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There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
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There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
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Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an ''act'' and he told the audience, ''This is my act.'' Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
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We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.
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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
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We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
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We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.
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We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
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