"Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice."
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"If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?"
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"I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors."
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"I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then we can say this has changed. Until then, these are steps to change if they're consistent."
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"The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found the truth in the stories I was telling as a doc, I could teach myself filmmaking through doc filmmaking."
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"I tell the stories that are of interest to me."
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"Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen."
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"If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all."
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"Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story."
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"The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished."
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"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet"."
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"Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet."
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"We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories."
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"life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so."
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"I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion."
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"A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar."
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"The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration."
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"A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it."
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"I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is."
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"Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it."
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