Trilogies Quotes

• The first script was one of six original stories I had written in the form of two trilogies. After the success of Star Wars, I added another trilogy. So now there are nine stories. The original two trilogies were conceived of as six films of which the first film was number four.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Two

  "The long, winding, and shapeshifting trail to episodes VII, VIII & IX" by J.W. Rinzler, www.starwars.com. October 30, 2012.

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• It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga of the Skywalkers and Jedi Knights unfolded, I began to see it as a tale that could take at least nine films to tell - three trilogies - and I realized, in making my way through the back story and after story, that I was really setting out to make the middle story.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Writing

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• Each time I do a trilogy it's ten years out of my life. I'll finish Episode III and I'll be 60. And the next 20 years after that I want to spend doing something other than Star Wars. If at 80 I'm still lively and having a good time and think I can work for another 10 years between 80 and 90, I might consider it. But don't count on it. There's nothing written, and it's not like I'm completing something. I'd have to start from scratch. The idea of a third trilogy was more of a media thing than it was me.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Thinking

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• A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

  Jonathan Demme

  Three, Abstract, Notion

  "Neil Young drives a 1956 Crown Vic back in time in Jonathan Demme’s ‘Neil Young: Journeys’" by Chris Kensler, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2012.

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• I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

  David Brin

  Writing

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• Some men just want to watch the world burn

  Michael Caine

  Crush, Depressing, Dark

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• Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Hero, Dark, Knights

  "The Dark Knight". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.

  Christian Bale

  Men, Blood, People

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• ...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

  Michael Caine

  Dark, Men, Watches

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• See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

  Heath Ledger

  Dark, Curves, Knights

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", 2008.

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• Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve. -The Joker

  Christopher Nolan

  Dark, Curves, Knights

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Why do we Fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.

  Christopher Nolan

  Fall, Batman Dark Knight, Dark Night

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• I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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• Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

  Mario Puzo

  Inspirational, Movie, Hollywood Films

  The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.

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• It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

  Christian Bale

  Who I Am, Superhero, Acting

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• Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.

  Mario Puzo

  Brother, Love You, I Love My Family

  "Fictional character: Michael". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• No trilogy should have more than four books.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Book, Writing, Should Have

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2001: A Space Odyssey”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.

  Ansen Dibell

  Kings, Moving, Book

  Ansen Dibell (1988). “Plot”, Writers Digest Books

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• My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.

  Juliet Marillier

  Book, Two, Advice

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• STAR WARS is really three trilogies, nine films. The first trilogy covers the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire, the middle trilogy the fall of the Empire, and the last trilogy involves the rebuilding of the Republic. It won't be finished for probably another 20 years.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Fall

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• The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'

  Tim Ferriss

  Wise, Book, Healthy

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• All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

  John Hodgman

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I also really like to read good books and I don't have enough time to do it. So it's really hard for me to imagine willingly submitting myself to a trilogy of books that I've been told are at the fourth grade reading level which isn't a very nice thing to say but.

  Lena Dunham

  Nice, Reading, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Writing, Law

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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