#epic

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#beginning #being #being human #end #epic

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story. ↗

— Bill Condon

#been #bennett #cast #change #ensemble

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. ↗

— Voltaire

#depicted #love #self-love #should

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#epic #epidemic #life #men #my life

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. ↗

— John Green

#american #because #disease #epic #family

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#am #character #depiction #direction #i

It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!' ↗

— Tom Hardy

#around #bag #batman #black #bouncing

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#bronze #define #entire #epics #humanity

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#because #epic #every #gandhi #happened

Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals. ↗

— Bernard Hinault

#cycling #depicted #distributors #harshly #health