#am

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#create #good #good story #i #i think

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#block #change #circles #come #doing

She opened her eyes once again and let them drift across the scene laid out before her like a page from a storybook. Inky blackness hung above them as though painted in impasto in an opaque Prussian Blue. The impression it gave was of a sky hand-crafted out of felt with a pearl of a moon and a generous dusting of diamonds sprinkled on for the stars. A night dreams were made of. ↗

— Ella J. Fraser

#writing #dreams

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments. ↗

— Artur Rodzinski

#nationalities #orchestra #temperaments #types

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#everything #familiar #marketing #now #reaching

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#because #change #deals #death #familiar

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#came #children #movies #under

When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#much #our #rooting #team

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#campaigns #celebrating #christmas #coca-cola #cultures

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards. ↗

— Richard Roeper

#cards #favorite #flipping #gambling #keep