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My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I thought that's a great idea, where your omniscient narrator is death. I'm glad he had that idea because I wouldn't have been able to work so well with it.
Shaun Tan
Work
Death
Great
Book
Thought
Thief
Omniscient
Great Idea
Able
My Friend
Point
Point Of View
Glad
Had
He
Idea
Wrote
Well
Because
Narrator
Been
Friend
Where
Story
View
Your
From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.
George Carey
Life
Love
God
Good
Justice
People
Speak
World
Honor
September
Christian
Think
Only
Point
Point Of View
Make
Forces
Course
Vulnerability
How
His
Did
Want
Which
Transitory
Us
View
Peaceful
Peaceful World
Aware
Actually
The next couple of jobs will determine, at least from a business point of view, if I'm a guy who's actually the real thing or I'm a guy who's had a nice moment.
Josh Brolin
Business
Will
Nice
Jobs
Determine
Guy
Point
Point Of View
Had
Couple
Least
Real
Real Thing
Next
View
Moment
Actually
Thing
From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.
Fabiola Gianotti
Dark
Matter
Universe
Our
Seek
About
Point
Point Of View
Open
Mission
Know
Scientific
Answers
Quarter
Nor
Questions
Accounts
Which
View
Many
Fundamental
Why
Fundamental Questions
If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.
Gail Honeyman
Life
You
Life Is A
Real Life
Down
Bit
About
More
Point
Point Of View
Write
Alluring
True
Narrative
Always
Real
Than
Fiction
Wanted
Break
View
Novel
Things
We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
Gavin MacLeod
Best
Wonderful
Wife
Made
Living
Other
Other Countries
Our
Kids
Point
Point Of View
Had
Support
Countries
Very
Behaviour
Then
View
Chance
Program
Careful
Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.
Rod Steiger
Man
Young
Say
Would
One Thing
Point
Point Of View
He
Opened
Crying
Left
Did
Door
Young Man
Poor
View
Moment
Now
Actor
Thing
Good records - from my point of view, where I grew up which was Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull... bands that were pushing the envelope a little - musically and in production.
Kip Winger
Good
Musically
Good Records
Records
Point
Point Of View
Envelope
Pushing
Were
Led
Led Zeppelin
Up
Bands
Tull
Where
Grew
Which
Little
Production
View
Zeppelin
Jethro
I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.
David Lloyd
Vote
People
Conservative
Strong
Side
Bad
Point
Tendency
Point Of View
Bad Thing
Idealistic
Ticket
Because
Understand
Go
Governments
Really
View
Why
Thing
I have a mindset that says bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.
Richard Mourdock
Ought
Mindset
Consist
Says
Point
Point Of View
Democrats
Coming
Republican
View
Bipartisanship
I wanted to write 'In Harm's Way' from the young men's point of view of being in a raft, or hanging in a life vest with just their nose poking above the water.
Doug Stanton
Life
Water
Men
Young
Way
Above
Point
Point Of View
Write
Poking
Vest
Hanging
Just
Being
Nose
Wanted
View
Raft
Harm
From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.
Joe Eszterhas
You
Director
Soul
Heart
Writing
Power
Lost
Gut
Something
Point
Point Of View
Piece
Makes
Brain
Process
Working
View
Original
Teams
Now
For 'A.D.,' when I got the script, I was really moved, because even though it told a story that I knew all my life, it was told in a different way. It was told from a very personal point of view.
Juan Pablo Di Pace
Life
My Life
Way
Though
All My Life
Point
Point Of View
Knew
Because
Got
Very
Personal
Moved
Different
Personal Point
Story
Script
Really
View
Even
Different Way
If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.
John Eaton
Music
You
Important
Timing
Think
Dramas
Point
Point Of View
Part
Look
Important Part
Off
Very
Greek
Theatrical
View
Reason
Many
Played
As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
Andre Dubus III
Character
Writing
Matter
Try
Philosophy
Plot
See
Point
Point Of View
Write
Goes
Where
Story
View
Ever
My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.
Tift Merritt
Stage
Some
More
Point
Point Of View
Writer
Hairdo
Performer
Like
Lot
Than
Just
Being
View
The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time, is really the stuff that interests me.
Steven Bochco
Time
Me
People
Dog
Long
Long Time
Whatever
Resonates
Way
Point
Point Of View
Emotional
Divorce
Stuff
Terms
Always
How
Dies
Storytelling
Really
Interests
View
Your
Moment
Trauma
Even
Lives
Thing
Consequence
A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.
Karen Traviss
Character
Eyes
Feeling
Films
Characters
TV
Inside
See
Seeing
Something
Point
Point Of View
Write
Feel
Glimpse
Heads
Reader
Tight
Very
Person
Behind
View
Novel
Each
Right
Third
I spent the first 16 years of my life in Scotland. My whole family is there. It's in my blood and informs my sense of humour, my point of view, the people I choose to spend time with, everything.
Gayle Rankin
Life
Time
Family
People
My Life
First
Sense
Humour
Spend
Everything
Spent
Point
Point Of View
Years
Blood
Scotland
Informs
View
Choose
Whole
The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.
John Desmond Bernal
Animal
Mind
Before
Imagination
Our
Intricate
Evolved
Must
Exceed
Point
Point Of View
Observing
Always
Human
Human Body
Them
Body
View
Human Mind
Company
Connections
I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.
Matt Reeves
Hope
You
Fear
Will
Looking
Big
Say
Machine
Out
About
Point
Point Of View
Consumed
Studio
Anonymous
Because
Always
Any
Might
View
Your
Reason
Suck
Express
Specificity
I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.
Story Musgrave
Nature
Picture
Big
Universe
Earth
Out
See
Point
Point Of View
Outside
Feel
Particularly
Another
Because
Am
Close
Big Picture
Them
View
Now
Position
I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.
Sun Ra
People
Pure
See
Point
Point Of View
Really
View
When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
Hallie Ephron
Blame
Reality
People
Past
Back
Exact
Details
Something
Point
Point Of View
Because
Ambiguous
May
Often
Depends
In The Past
Happens
Frustrating
Far
View
Villain
Recall
Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.
Howard Fast
Life
Myself
Writing
My Life
Action
Believe
Other
Enriched
Philosophical
Willingly
Unpopular
Wed
Point
Point Of View
Feel
Since
Matched
Causes
Person
Endless
Being
Experiences
Depleted
Which
Little
Meaning
Much
Aspects
View
Series
Found
If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.
Anna D. Shapiro
You
Think
Objectively
Attached
Point
Point Of View
Wrong
Without
Exists
Anything
Theater
View
Your
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