Chris Terrio Quotes

• You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.

  Chris Terrio

  Lonely, Depressing, Writing

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• You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

  Chris Terrio

  Writing, Character, People

  "THR's Writer Roundtable: Osama bin Laden, Why 'Schindler's List' Is Irresponsible and When Judd Apatow Was a Dishwasher". Interview with Matthew Belloni and Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

  Chris Terrio

  Lasts, Strange, Lifestyle

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• Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

  Chris Terrio

  Jobs, Revolutionary

  Source: collider.com

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• And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.

  Chris Terrio

  Thinking, Organization, Sometimes

  "'Argo' Screenwriter Explains the CIA Secrets and Surprises Behind the Film". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. Ocotber 15, 2012.

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• I need eclectic people in my life.

  Chris Terrio

  People, Needs, Eclectic

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• In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

  Chris Terrio

  Debate, Film, Internals

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• In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.

  Chris Terrio

  Media, Iran, Play

  "Yahoo! Original: ‘Argo’ writer Chris Terrio talks Ben Affleck, blue Wookies and ‘Breaking Bad’". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.yahoo.com. February 15, 2013.

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• The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

  Chris Terrio

  Years, Organization, Way

  "'Argo' Screenwriter Explains the CIA Secrets and Surprises Behind the Film". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 15, 2012.

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