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“The films you're making have to be faithful to the material.”

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David Heyman is a renowned British film producer, best known for his contributions to the Harry Potter film series. Born on July 26, 1961, Heyman has been involved in the production of several successful films since the 1990s. more

“I like stories that begin with characters. I like to be engaged and moved by the characters in the story. I want to be moved. I want to leave the cinema and think about what I've seen. My sensibility is quite eclectic and it doesn't matter if they are small or large films, I just want to make good films.”

Thinking Character Film Moved Sensibility Eclectic

Author:David Heyman

“I would be writing and trying to write like Joan Didion. Or if I was reading Raymond Carver. You know, strong stylists. But that's how you find your voice, is imitating other people. So things like that didn't embarrass me, because I thought, well, that's how it goes. That's how everyone learns.”

People Writing Trying Reading Strong Carver

Author:David Sedaris

“I'm so old that when I started keeping a diary they were in actual books, and I think that's one the reasons that I've never written about sex. Because early on you had to worry that someone was going to find your diary, so it's bad enough to be writing like Joan Didion, but writing like Joan Didion about sex acts you'd performed with somebody you had known for 20 minutes, that's a bit worse. So I would write in my diary, "I met J. and we had sex five times last night." But I would never write about what we did.”

Thinking Writing Book Reason Enough Night Worry Last Night

Author:David Sedaris

“I've never written about sex in my diary. Like if you read my diary, you wouldn't think I'm a virgin, but you would have no idea what it is that I've actually ever done.”

Thinking Done

Author:David Sedaris

“I started typing diary in, I don't know, 1978 or '79, but then the computer changed that a lot. Because with the computer if you were writing and you realized you had three sentences in a row that started with the word "he," you could fix that right up, whereas on a typewriter you'd think, "Well, I'm not going to change the whole page. It's my diary." So that made a difference.”

Thinking Writing Changed Computer Typing

Author:David Sedaris

“The whole world has become a crowded theater. You could say something here in New York and have it be heard in Afghanistan and potentially trigger riots and it may be something that to you was innocent or was in jest or was satirical and it's taken out of context. I mean, a joke, a tweet or a blog post can make it halfway around the world before the context gets its boots on.”

World Mean Taken Jokes Innocent Afghanistan Halfway Riot Tweet Satirical Of Context

Author:Suzanne Nossel

“I think it just has to do with getting older and getting better at what it was I was doing, and that I could take something small and kind of take my time with it. I think actually what that has to do with is I quit drinking. Before that I told myself I could only drink if I was - if I was writing, I had to be drinking. So I was on a timer, because eventually you get too drunk to write.”

Thinking Writing Kind Drink Drinking Quitting Drunk Get Better Getting Old Getting Older I Quit Quit Drinking

Author:David Sedaris

“Now I don't drink, and I get up in the morning and I write in my diary, and I can write in my diary for hours if I feel like it. And I'm still sober so I can write the stories that I'm working on, and I can sit at the desk as long as I need to. So that changed a lot, I think.”

Thinking Writing Long Hours Morning Changed Drink Sober

Author:David Sedaris

“You can get an audience, you can get followers all over the world and there's great power and excitement in those connections but there also is grave danger of misinterpretation, sometimes something can be incendiary and we also see what I think of as an arms race between these new technologies that allow for expression and communication and then new methods of surveillance and suppression.”

Thinking World Sometimes Technology Audience Danger Communication Excitement New Technology Great Power

Author:Suzanne Nossel

“We're still really in catch-up mode in terms of alerting people to the risks of social media, to the kind of consciousness that you need to have when you do publish something. It used to be such a deliberate and elaborate process to get to publication with many steps and phases and editors and you know, now it's instantaneous and it's wonderful, you know, the immediacy and the power of that but it also can be dangerous.”

People Kind Term Consciousness Wonderful Risk Dangerous Social Media Publish

Author:Suzanne Nossel

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