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English 319S:
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 Mark Norman and Tom Stoppard |
"I not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life -- her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents of her pantry, the smell of her kitchen,
the song that escaped from her sometimes parched lips, her thoughtful repose and pregnant laughter -- are all worthy of art." -- August Wilson
"But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know.
I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos." -- Horton Foote
". . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . .
There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . .
there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images." -- David Hare
"What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by most people.
I'm talking about movement -- screenwriting is related to math and music, and if you zig here, you know you have to zag there.
It's like the descriptions for a piece of music -- you go fast or slow or with feeling. It's the same." -- Robert Towne
"The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are." -- Tina Howe