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Whit Stillman Quotes

American - Director | January 25, 1952 -

I'm very concerned about the countries bordering Russia. But let's stay off that stuff.

Russia Stay Off Stuff Concerned

I like things that are sort of comic and humorous rather than satirical.

Things Like Rather Than Comic Sort

I really like the short stories that Melissa Bank writes. I think she's sort of channeling the female version of J.D. Salinger in more recent days.

Think Short More She Bank Days

So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.

Creating Creation Helpful Going Just

I've learned that I really want to shoot short films on a short schedule. There can be very good films that run 110 minutes, but 90 minutes is beautiful.

Good Beautiful Short Want Run Shoot

What frustrates me a lot about some aspects of filmmaking is people thinking everyone is really dumb and that we have to make everything really obvious.

People Me Thinking Filmmaking Dumb

I remember going to one party of this preppy, bourgeois crowd, and there was some obnoxious character there, really bad news, and saying, 'Oh my God, so the caricature you always see in films actually exists.'

God Character Saying Remember You

There are bad preppies and bad priests and bad humanitarians. Any group can have its bad apple.

Bad Apple Group Priests Any

I love writing novels, but I'm very fearful about writing something from absolute scratch. I kind of don't have the time to write something from scratch. I think when my knees completely give out, and I can't make films anymore, I would try to write novels from scratch.

Love Time Writing Think Kind Try

The only way to end up in the perfect future is to invent it yourself.

Future Yourself End Perfect Way Up

I think that, in terms of mainstream storytelling, the rebel gets off way too easy. We're way too hard on the insiders and way too soft on the outsiders.

Think Easy Rebel Way Storytelling

The thing that was most harmful was that there was always something that was about to happen. So I found myself indulging in the writer's luxury of doing another draft, another idea. If this project isn't happening, then I'll shelve one script and start writing another. And in that way, the years go by, and there's very little money coming in.

Myself Money Writing Start Luxury

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