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Alexander Emmert

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Alexander Emmert

  • If there is any "formula" to a film's success, it is definitely in elements rather than numbers, that is to say, its artistic chemistry rather than its prefigured calculations.
  • People who do not care about reading the script, and only want to see your business plan, are NOT Allies. They are Accountants.
  • I have two bits of advice for anyone who wants to be in entertainment. The first is that you can never, never, ever give up under any circumstances, no matter how severe or untenable they seem to be! And the other is that if someone offers you a breath mint, take it.
  • To create is to voluntarily be frustrated and flummoxed while simultaneously feeling inspired and intrigued. It is to constantly imagine, play, rip and rebuild. It is the bright star in the sky, the land across the sea. It is eternal resurrection.
  • The intersection of Art and Commerce is where you are most likely to be hit by a bus.
  • I admire all those who can peer into the vacancy of the mundane, and who can divine within that ambiguity a mystery, from which they may then bathe in an appreciation and awe of the astounding beauty of what could be...
  • On Writing: Once you have the spirit, sketch out skeleton, then build out the body.

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