Quote by Richard Russo
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. Theyre about stringin

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. Theyre about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels arent necessarily about that. – Richard Russo

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Truth be told, Im not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though its been my experience that most people dont want to be entertained. They want to be comforted. – Richard Russo

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Experience
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At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I dont really think of myself as writing humor. Im simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious. – Richard Russo

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Humor
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If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill whats funny in the joke. – Richard Russo

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Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and thats that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that. – Kevin Smith

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My movies have always done pretty well in the UK – The Matrix films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people were working with here. – Joel Silver

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When I go to movies and I love the movie, its because it feels like it articulated something about how were living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it. – Josh Radnor

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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. – David Lynch

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