“The idea that you could stitch together every detail episode to episode and preserve continuity for the length of a season and tell a story while using no time cuts, no flashbacks, nothing but pure real time just seemed too difficult.” IdeasRealStoriesTogetherDifficultCuttingPureSeasonsDetailsPreservesLengthEpisodesContinuityStitchesFlashback Author:Michael Loceff
“I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical stories. I think they are somehow closer to the sense of reality one feels today than the equally stylized 'realistic' story in which a great deal of selectivity and omission has to occur in order to preserve its 'realist' style.” ThinkingFeelsStoriesRealityTodayOrderDealsSituationStyleMythTalesEnjoyedPreservesFairyRealisticFairy TalePresentingRealistSurrealismOmissionSurrealist Author:Stanley Kubrick
“There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles” WayWritingWellsPersonsFactsStoriesTogetherLeftRolesGonePaperCleverTalesNarrativePreservesTallLegendsSelectedEditedTall Tales Author:Steven Hall
“The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.” PeopleIdeasCountryStoriesValuesWishIdentitySolitudeMythPreservesCanadaPonderingContemplativeReverie Author:B. W. Powe