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“Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.”

Quote by Isabel Allende

Book:Conversations with Isabel Allende

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Conversations with Isabel Allende

This book presents a series of conversations with the celebrated author Isabel Allende, delving into her personal experiences, creative process, and the themes that have shaped her writing career. more

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Isabel Allende, born on August 2, 1942, is a renowned Chilean writer known for her magical realism style. Her works have gained widespread popularity, with notable titles including 'Love in the Time of Cholera' and 'The House of the Spirits'. more

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“One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.”

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende

“The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.”

Ifs Humans Human Beings Quality Greater Wonderful Overcoming Prejudice Absolutes Terror Surrender What If

Book:Conversations with Isabel Allende

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende

“In Venezuela, when I was living there, crime was growing. You couldn't feel safe anywhere. You couldn't leave your car in the street because it would be stolen. You coun't live in your house if you didn't have a high-security alarm system, because you would be burglarized seven times a week.”

Ifs Feels Would Be House Growing Week Streets Security Car Crime Safe Seven Stolen Alarms Venezuela

Author:Isabel Allende

“Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.”

Bigs Happens Black Realizing Worst Caverns

Book:Conversations with Isabel Allende

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende

“I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.”

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Author:Isabel Allende

“Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.”

Film Rich Imagery Monarchy Posh Sumptuous

Author:Tom Hooper

“I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.”

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Author:Tom Hooper

“Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.”

Filmmaker Cliche

Author:Tom Hooper

“When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.”

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Author:Shane Carruth

“Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it was just photography with a set shutter speed, I got some slide film and I just went about storyboarding the script and taking snapshots. I took a ton of time doing it just to make sure I knew exactly what I was doing. By the end of it I knew what the film was going to look like - my exposure and the composition and everything. I wasn't scared of cinematography anymore.”

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Author:Shane Carruth