Format Quotes - Page 3

• I think acting is really fully adapting - to your surroundings, to your emotions, to the people that you're working with, to being tired, to want to go home, to being lonely, to being happy. It's adapting for me, and trusting. Adapting and trusting, that's my format right there.

  Charlize Theron

  Lonely, Home, Tired

  "AWFJ Women On Film – Charlize Theron Talks "Burning Plain" – Jen Yamato interviews". Interview with Jen Yamato, awfj.org. September 24, 2009.

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• I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter how well I do it, it's not really my format.

  Marc Maron

  Matter, Bother, Wells

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

  Chris Robinson

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Water

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Taken, Thinking, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that is stuck in the past.

  Marion Vernoux

  Past, Careers, Support

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm looking forward to Phoenix. I ran well there last year in the Nationwide Series, and it was one of the tracks I made four Sprint Cup starts at last season. In the Cup race last year, I had a good run going for it being my first time there in a Cup car, and unfortunately got damage from an accident. It's not a restrictor plate race, so this will be the first time this season that I will run a lot of laps in practice. It's also the first race for the new qualifying format, so it will be interesting to see how that works out. Overall, I just want to have a solid run in the BRANDT Chevy.

  Justin Allgaier

  Running, Practice, Phoenix

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• I personally like the idea of newspapers. It's a good format. You can read it in whatever order you want. You can glance at it. There is something about a single screen and scrolling through pages that just doesn't have the same appeal.

  Matt Groening

  Order, Ideas, Want

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

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• For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section, to move a section, reorganize the section, anything I want to do, I just boot words, and I do what I want to do. So, I feel completely empowered when I'm a writer.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Moving, Writing, Add

  "Guy Kawasaki Interview on His Latest Book - APE". Interview with Helen Nesterenko, writtent.com. January 11, 2013.

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• An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

  Charles Stross

  Careers, Average, Long

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

  Michael Apted

  Movie, Skills, Imagination

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• Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

  Julie Klausner

  Cabaret

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• Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of Upstairs Downstairs is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.

  Ellie Kendrick

  Drama, Thinking, Pie

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any comic can get on the radio show and be funny. You can get that on any morning radio show or afternoon radio show. There are plenty of people who do that. It's not a difficult format, to sit around with two or three comics and be funny.

  Marc Maron

  Morning, Two, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• What I saw quite clearly in the '80s, before the internet, was that the whole world was shifting toward digital formats, and that didn't matter whether it's movies or writing or whatever. It was something that was coming. And with the invention of the World Wide Web in the early '90s, when we were teaching our first courses, or the arrival of the internet by way of the browser, which opened up the internet to everybody - soon it was just revolutionary.

  Robert Coover

  Teaching, Writing, Matter

  Interview with Aaron Shulman, believermag.com. July 1, 2015.

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• I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Book, Cds, Albums

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Obviously, it's not cable, it's streaming, but it's the same format. It's the same 10 episodes. It feels like cable as opposed to network.

  Christian Cooke

  Streaming, Episodes, Feels

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You cannot do everything you want with the 3D camera, it's too big, and the digital quality of those cameras is a little bit limiting. With film, you have a lot more subtly, like with highlights and color. In terms of sharpness they (both formats) are very close; but in terms of nuance, of color and contrast, film is far superior.

  Michel Gondry

  Color, Quality, Littles

  "‘Green Hornet’ Director Michel Gondry Talks Hardships In Hollywood". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. January 19, 2011.

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• However, I think that sometimes when shows do, you know, have a good season or a bad season, it comes down to something as simple as the crop of contestants that year, and do they break through in a way that makes the audience excited. Those are the kinds of things that tend to make a difference, more so than tweaks to the format and that sort of stuff, as much as we, obviously, would all like to try to assume that it's in our power.

  Dan Cutforth

  Simple, Thinking, Years

  "Reality Check: Dan Cutforth On What Keeps ‘Top Chef’ Sharp, Cutting Through The Clutter & What’s Next". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. June 16, 2014.

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• Larry and I, and a bunch of our colleagues, were sitting on great stories that needed to get out to an audience in one way, shape or form. We've both produced comics in the past, and audio dramas seemed like a similarly interesting option, the other side of the coin. As we've continued with the project, the format has become a vital way for us to tell our stories.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Drama, Past, Interesting

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The more we do this, the more the audio-drama format is opening up to us in new ways. So I think there's an experimental element, or at least an confidence in experimenting, that's running though our work now - and it wasn't there in the first season.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Running, Drama, Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The format's limitations are its strengths. We can't show you the monster, but why would we want to? Your imagination is a darker and scarier place than anything that can get generated on a computer. Asking the audience to use their imaginations makes it a much more personal and interactive experience.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Imagination, Monsters, Asking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.

  George Burns

  Play, Ideas, Plot

  George Burns (1988). “Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.

  Jeremy Robinson

  Book, Self, Goal

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• We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about.

  Garth Brooks

  Art, Men, Giving

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• It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Character, Challenges, Arcs

  "Ginnifer Goodwin and John Krasinski Interview SOMETHING BORROWED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 4, 2011.

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