John Yorke Quotes

#1. ... the midpoint of each film is the moment when each protagonist embraces for the first time the quality they will need to become complete and finish their story. It's when they discover a truth about themselves.

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#2. Silence of the Lambs screenwriter Ted Tally put the art of writing dialogue succinctly: 'What's important is not the emotion they're playing but the emotion they're trying to conceal.

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#3. People construct a public face in order to deal with the conflicts that rage inside them. So

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#4. A character's want is a superficial conscious desire for the thing they think they need in order to present themselves to the world, a

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#5. Without subtext you have a flat, linear world; everything is literal, everything spoken is meant. With subtext the writer is able to access the gap between language and thought, and

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#6. if you disguise exposition with 'emotional overlay', it's rendered undetectable.5

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#7. All tales, then, are at some level a journey into the woods to find the missing part of us, to retrieve it and make ourselves whole. Storytelling is as simple - and complex - as that. That's the pattern. That's how we tell stories.

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