Get ahead Quote by Paul Schrader Download Open image “Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.” — Paul Schrader ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Get ahead Settling Viewers
You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not quite going… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Never lose sight of what you're trying to say, and remain open to what's happening while you're filming. — Catherine Corsini Copy Share Image
You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move. — King Hu Copy Share Image
But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop… — David Morse Copy Share Image
“Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep.Days go on and on... They don't end.” — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters. — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
Because many of the films I've made have had an intellectualedge, it's harder for me to lie. It's harder for me to go to… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors. — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
Contradiction is the heart and soul of character and drama. You're always looking for it. I loved her so much I hit her; that's… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away. — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
There's something wrong - the performance, the weather, the set design, the lighting. Something is not working. And so you say, "Give me 10… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself... — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
Prejudice against womenis many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body… Astonishingly, even women's… — Elinor Guggenheimer Copy Share Image
We've done things that are faster at times, but it's definitely different when we direct all the episodes because it's like we have to… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors.… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The question you must answer isn't how to get ahead. It's how to go somewhere that matters. And have fun along the way. — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The experience of reading a novel and watching a television show are quite different. You can't let your audience get ahead of you, and… — Michelle Fairley Copy Share Image
I think it's keeping a surprise element, so that the audience never gets ahead of you. I like to pull the rug out from… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long… — William James Copy Share Image
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