Features Quotes - Page 15

• Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero.

  Raul Garcia

  Zero, Independence, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've always got five or six things that would either make a good feature or TV show. And you just never know. You go and you pitch and it may be exactly what they're looking for, or they may stop you after two sentences and say, "Oh, we've already done something just like that."

  John Sayles

  Tv Shows, Two, Done

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting; more often it is some common, familiar, and despised weed that is discovered to have undreamed-of virtues.

  Euell Gibbons

  Beautiful, Weed, Interesting

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• Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Waste, Rubbish, Taught

  Peter Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (kni︠a︡zʹ), George Woodcock (1993). “Fields, factories, and workshops”, Consortium Book Sales & Dist

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• Features that offer value to a minority of users impose a cost on all users.

  Douglas Crockford

  Minorities, Cost, Offers

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.100, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Different, Killers

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• I think making shorts is really about giving yourself the opportunity to learn what your strengths and weaknesses are. That's really important to know before getting to your first feature. In many ways you can't afford to make too many mistakes while on that feature.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Mistake, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm still producing scripted features, and I am already working on a new documentary project with Norman Lear and Lara Bergthold. It is about the Declaration of Independence and the relevance of the document today. And it will be fun and engaging - I promise!

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Fun, Independence, Promise

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've done documentaries and TV for six years but this was my first feature as director, so there were moments when I'd look around and was excited... but, of course, it was also very challenging on a day-to-day basis. And, of course, now that it's coming out people want to talk mostly to the actors.

  Robert B. Weide

  Years, People, Challenges

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Keys, Interesting, Secret

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Too Blue is a fantastic band with great singing, great picking and large dollops of creativity. The album features beautifully clean production values and the sound is always fresh. I was impressed. I think you will be too.

  Tony Trischka

  Creativity, Thinking, Blue

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• Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.

  Fatih Ak?n

  Wish, Documentaries, Film

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One feature film that I am most proud of is Forrest Gump which starred Tom Hanks. Once you are called out to work in film, yes it is a small industry and your name gets around pretty fast.

  Leland Sklar

  Names, Proud, Film

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• I'm starting to believe that part of the solution regarding the devices is that they have a role to play in engaging the customer and keeping our product in front of them during the pre-show. They certainly have a role to play in ticket sales. Inside the movie auditorium, though, during the feature presenation there's no place for them. Every single weekend two out of the top three reasons people contact us are: somebody's being disruptive, with a device most of the time, or a dirty bathroom.

  Gerry Lopez

  Believe, Dirty, Weekend

  Source: deadline.com

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• Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.

  J. William Fulbright

  Character, Intolerance, Dissent

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.42, Random House

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• The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

  John Dewey

  Community, Improvement, Problem

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.64, 谷月社

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• If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more resembles the Soviet Union.

  Vladimir Bukovsky

  Monsters, Unions, Structure

  "Secretly Trading Away Our Independence" by William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. May 9, 2013.

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• As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Plato, Compassion, Self

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• If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.441, Modern Library

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• So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

  John Milton

  Air, Quarry, Grim

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.262

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• We made four feature films with Sherwood Baptist. The wonderful thing was the church (members) volunteered. It was an awesome atmosphere of attitudes. The hard part was (that) all four of the first feature films we made take place in modern-day Albany, Georgia. We know that not all of our films going to be (set in) modern-day Albany, Georgia.

  Alex Kendrick

  Attitude, Atmosphere, Church

  "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.

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• I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

  Charles Kuralt

  Impact, People, Stories

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• I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

  Charles Kuralt

  Thinking, Stories, Lines

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• What is the best way to look for one´s chief feature?" someone asked. Simply see yourself. I do not know how to explain it better. It is possible one may find something -- chief feature of the moment. It is imaginary personality; this is the chief feature for everybody."Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Knowing, Personality, Quality

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• You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature that's good for customers. Let's do it.

  Jeff Bezos

  Simple, Use, Judgment

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