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The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'
Gavin Hood
Tags: You Like Would
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.


Chinua Achebe
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.
Ben Okri
Tags: You Than World
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.


Daniel Clowes
Tags: Had Them Than
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
Sergei Eisenstein
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When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.
Warren Ellis
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
Takeshi Kitano
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The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
Christian Morgenstern
Tags: Than Being Able
Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad. I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.
Nicole Krauss
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Language is much closer to film than painting is.


Sergei Eisenstein
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In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase.
Marcel Duchamp
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I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego.
Sylvia Plath
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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.
James Laughlin
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If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.
Simon Fuller
Tags: Me Up Things
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Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.


Tony Curtis
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What I wanted to create with 'The Luminaries' is a book that had structural patterns built in that didn't matter, but if you cared about them, you could look into the book and see them.
Eleanor Catton
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One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.
Bobby Sherman
When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.
Asa Butterfield
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Each time somebody working for the Maison has a baby, the atelier creates miniature blouses-blanches, exactly like the ones we wear, with the child's name embroidered across the front. That is our welcome-to-this-world gift.
Martin Margiela
Tags: Time Like Our