Nancy Dubuc Quotes

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

We all tell our own stories the way we live our lives. My story is: Life is too short to not believe in fresh voices. I don't have Hollywood stars. I have great American artists.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it's always worth writing.

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

I know I have a caption that I'm going to use when somebody tells me something I've never heard before. It's very rarely a thought, a philosophy, when somebody says, 'Oh, I don't like cheese' or 'Oh, I think the government should be overthrown,' because so many people share these thoughts. But what people don't share is stories.

I always like when things are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do.

My goal is not to make popular things. My goal is to make the things I love as popular as I can make them.

I say to my pupils, 'You can pitch me any thing you've got, but tell me why you're the only person who can write it in the world. Keep digging.'

Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before?

I respect Malayalam films the same way I respect Bengali films. I think Malayalam films have not compromised on the essence and have kept their own statement and are coming up with very good themes.