"The job of the screenplay is to identify……" — Barry Eisler
"The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle."
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21 Quotes by Barry Eisler
Barry Eisler has 21 quotes on this site.
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If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on…
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I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already…
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The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement,
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From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office…
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a…
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The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost…
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche…
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is…
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When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a…
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More Essence Quotes
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
— Aristotle
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
— Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
— Isaac Asimov
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very…
— Sai Baba
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy…
— Irving Babbitt
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a…
— Eric Bana
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
— John Adams
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
— Jane Addams
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose…
— Annie Besant
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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