Books Quote by Philip Gerard Download Open image “We create an interior 'movie' in the reader's head through words on the page.” — Philip Gerard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Interiors Language Movie Pages Reader Writing
A written word gets preserved in so many forms. But movies which comprise of both audio and visuals have to be done with care… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it. — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
You sit and you read that, and you have to imagine turning it into a film that people are going to sit and watch.… — Wolfgang Petersen Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages. If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it.… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
“Movies and television may be influencing writers to write more visually, using immediate scenes with specific points of view to put their stories across.… — Renni Browne Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on the page… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write from the inside out. I really try to jump into the world of the film and the… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely because… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Storytelling is the art of unfolding knowledge in a way that makes each piece contribute to a larger truth. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Voice is one of the most elusive qualities in any story. We recognize it when we hear it, but it's hard consciously to create… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
“Nobody writes a book. What you write every day is a piece of a book, a fragment, a scene.” — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Voice really depends on the answer to the question, Who is telling this story? . . . That will color your diction-and determine your metaphors, your sensibility. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art:… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. . . . The simplest tool of the writer is repetition. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world. — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
