Victoria Smurfit Quotes

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you can't possibly please everyone.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

I'm going to start work on developing a series for HBO, because I'm naturally given to episodic stories of considerable length. And I won't have to listen to complaints about how wordy and long my work is if you can watch it on your telephone on the subway: You can make it conform to your day as if it were a book.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

There are stories you can tell on TV that can't be told in movies anymore.

I never, in anything I've ever done, tried to get you to like it. I was never going to succeed at that. That's not the way most entertainment is made. Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.

I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

I think finite series gives you more time to write down your journey in any show. When it's a finite series, you know the start and know your end. The writers and actors know what is going to happen, so the interest is not lost.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.

Our goal is to focus on the unique points of view of our show creators but make shows that have broad appeal.

The beauty of 'The OA' or 'Stranger Things' is that they are both made by Netflix for Netflix. And so there was a freedom all of a sudden that matched our intention.

In my mind, there's usually a fairly definitive kind of narrative when I write. But I don't want to enforce that on other people. I think that's why I like using metaphor so much.

The only rule of a musical is that it must maintain its buoyancy.

The thought crossed my mind about not wanting to alienate my fan base, but I don't know what would alienate them or bring them in, so I decided not to think about it.

I appreciate artistically made movies, but as an audience member, I want to be entertained, too.

The bane of every TV writer's existence is the likability note.