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hitrecordjoe: We’re now finally allowed to post the DonJon...

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:50:13 -0400

We’re now finally allowed to post the DonJon trailer on our hitRECord YouTube channel.

I RECorded a more casual intro for it :O)

amandaonwriting: Literary Birthday - 31 December Happy...

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:30:27 -0400

amandaonwriting:

Literary Birthday - 31 December

Happy Birthday, Junot Díaz, born 31 December 1968

Junot Díaz Quotes

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep it away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

You can’t regret the life you didn’t lead.

What we do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

I guess I don’t know what my genres are because I keep discovering new kinds of books to enjoy.

This is what I know: people’s hopes go on forever.

And that’s when I know it’s over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end.

The half-life of love is forever.

Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at MIT, and fiction editor at Boston Review. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. This is How You Lose Her was on the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 list.

by Amanda Patterson

From Writers Write

Universal Picks Up 'Rosaline' From '500 Days' Writers | THR

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:59:10 -0400

Universal Picks Up 'Rosaline' From '500 Days' Writers | THR:

popculturebrain:

The comedic and revisionist take on ‘Romeo and Juliet’ will be produced by Shawn Levy.

I can’t wait to see this one.

moon83: Antares & Love by Joe Webb

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:57:57 -0400

Antares & Love IV

Antares & Love II

Antares & Love I

Antares & Love III

Antares & Love V

Antares & Love VI

Antares & Love VII

Antares & Love VIII

moon83:

Antares & Love by Joe Webb

"First-rate fiction lays hands on the reader, to heal him or rough him up or, ideally, to do both."

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:30:24 -0400

“First-rate fiction lays hands on the reader, to heal him or rough him up or, ideally, to do both.”

- Ellen Currie (via amandaonwriting)

totalfilm: Only God Forgives reaction: Cannes 2013 “The second...

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:21:34 -0400

totalfilm:

Only God Forgives reaction: Cannes 2013

“The second enemy of creativity, after having ‘good taste’, is being safe.”

So says Nicolas Winding Refn in his Director’s Note…

What advice would you give to someone starting out? [x]

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:30:36 -0400

What advice would you give to someone starting out? [x]

latimes: nevver: Before and after The latest: At the scene of...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:05:06 -0400

latimes:

nevver:

Before and after

The latest: At the scene of the tornado, officials have pledged to rebuild, while rescue crews continue to look for those still unaccounted for in the wake of the newly-classified EF-5 storm.

Devastating.

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel –...

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:30:25 -0400

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel – it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they’d see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them. —Steve McQueen

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Mon, 20 May 2013 05:30:32 -0400

Ridley Scott's Moses Movie 'Exodus' Opens Dec 12th 2014, Fassbender's 'Assassin's Creed' On May 22nd 2015 | The Playlist

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:11:31 -0400

Ridley Scott's Moses Movie 'Exodus' Opens Dec 12th 2014, Fassbender's 'Assassin's Creed' On May 22nd 2015 | The Playlist:

Via Indiewire: The Studios are starting to line up their ~~chess pieces~~ movies for 2014 and 2015. It’s always interesting to see how they think are a movie will play by where it is placed for award season and box office.

BBC Confirms ‘Doctor Who’ Season 8 With Moffat | Deadline

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:48:54 -0400

BBC Confirms ‘Doctor Who’ Season 8 With Moffat | Deadline

"I try to take risks and I try to challenge myself and I try not to be complacent or lazy in any way...."

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:30:17 -0400

“I try to take risks and I try to challenge myself and I try not to be complacent or lazy in any way. For Shame, I tried to do justice to the beautiful script that Abi [Morgan] and Steve put together. I’ve got to put myself out on the line and try and represent [that] as best I can. And that’s, I think, just part of my job description, I don’t see it as being exceptional or anything else. The thing is, I try and move forward, you know? I put heart and soul into this film six months ago, now I have to concern myself about the next thing. I can’t linger in the past.”

- Michael Fassbender discussing Abi Morgan’s and Steve McQueen’s script “Shame”.

- This is all you can ask of an actor and all that they can ask of you as a writer to not to be lazy or complacent in any way.

waltzingmatildablog: I love this quote.

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:30:20 -0400

waltzingmatildablog:

I love this quote.

inessentialhouses: Happy 116th Birthday, Frank Capra(May 18,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:29:29 -0400

inessentialhouses:

Happy 116th Birthday, Frank Capra
(May 18, 1897 - September 3, 1991)

“Maybe there really wasn’t an America, maybe it was only Frank Capra.”
- John Cassavetes

“When I see a crowd, I see a collection of free individuals: each a unique person; each a king or a queen; each a story that would fill a book; each an island of human dignity.”

“Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film. “

Almost Human pilot pays tribute to sci-fi film cornerstone...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:05:06 -0400

Almost Human pilot pays tribute to sci-fi film cornerstone Blade Runner

Christopher Nolan Approached for Next Bond Film | Daily Mail

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:31:02 -0400

Christopher Nolan Approached for Next Bond Film | Daily Mail:

Very interesting if confirmed.

"Now, on Breaking Bad, I am kind of the last word on the set for the look of the show. And I’m very..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 05:30:33 -0400

“Now, on Breaking Bad, I am kind of the last word on the set for the look of the show. And I’m very open. We don’t have rules there. Our rule is to tell the story honestly — that’s our credo. We don’t say, “You must tell it in long shots, You must tell it in wide shots, You must tell it in close-ups, you must do this…” What we do say, if that you must get to the essence of the story, and tell it organically. When you do something like that, then it kind of rolls off of the screen. It doesn’t feel like the photography is a separate job from the writing or the acting or the art directing or the makeup. Everything feels of a piece, and that’s the best compliment you can pay to any visual artists, I think — hen it all feels like it belongs there”

- ‘Breaking Bad’ Director of Photography Michael Slovis Talks About Shaping the Look of the Most Cinematic Show on Television,

What a delightful idea.

Thu, 16 May 2013 05:30:41 -0400

What a delightful idea.

"People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel like that they don’t..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:30:40 -0400

“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel like that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren’t, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.”

- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (via thenineteenthsecond)