Quotes by John Fusco - Page 1

I have spent time in Mongolia, in China.
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China
Time Spent
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'Horse thunder' is what I call the sound of galloping hooves.
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Galloping
Horse
Sound
Thunder
Call
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With the Mongolian horse warfare, I did a lot of research into the Mongol art of war.
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Art Of War
Horse
Research
Warfare
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I feel that Marco Polo has really been misrepresented - has never really gotten his due.
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Polo
Due
Gotten
Misrepresented
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When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.
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Ancient
Fascinated
Time Reading
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The journey of Marco Polo is the hero's journey, one that all cultures across the globe can relate to.
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Journey
Hero
Polo
Relate
Cultures
Globe
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Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.'
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Iron
Literature
Aware
Student
Tiger
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We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice... Kazakhstan... into the jungles of Malaysia.
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Malaysia
Polo
Traveled
Venice
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Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.
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Buried
Dust
Historical
Polo
True Story
Banal
Cloud
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It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.
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Fascinated
Polo
Always Me People
Me People Connection
Connection
Me People Always
Few People
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My son, Gio, wanted to do a horseback trip in Mongolia, but he didn't want to do an Abercrombie & Fitch-type tour, where they show you around while you sleep in B&Bs.
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Horseback
Trip
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I grew up in the unlikely place of Connecticut. The Eastern Woodlands. It was semi-rural where I grew up. I was fascinated by the Piqua and the Mohegan Indians of that area.
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Connecticut
Eastern
Fascinated
Unlikely
Area
Indians
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It all goes back to 'Wow, I never knew this about Marco Polo.' This is an incredible story and an incredible character, and such a rich world of Mongolian and Chinese culture.
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Chinese
Chinese Culture
Polo
Wow
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I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.
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Great American
Polo
Time Great Me
Lining
Television Series
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He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I'm of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo.
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Decent
Fascination
Italian
Polo
Connection
Travels
Vicariously
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When people hear the name 'Marco Polo,' they tend to think of a map or explorer. Very few people know the true story of Marco Polo, and it's so much more compelling and exciting than the mythology.
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Compelling
Mythology
Polo
True Story
Few People
Map
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I grew up with a fascination with Marco Polo. I had this unlikely interest in the East as a young man, and you can't really read about Chinese history and philosophy without encountering him at every turn.
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Chinese
Fascination
Polo
Unlikely
Young Man
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I started looking into horse history books and came across the actual story of this half-breed endurance horseman and his painted mustang Hidalgo. I wasn't really sure if I was going to do the movie at that point.
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Endurance
History Books
Horse
Actual
Story Books
Painted
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I was interviewing an elder, Chief Fool's Crow, who was the ceremonial chief. He was 103 years old. I was getting his information on the history of Lakota horses. He told me the story of Hidalgo and Frank Hopkins.
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Crow
Fool
Frank
Hopkins
Information
Ceremonial
Chief
Elder
Horses
Interviewing
Story
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I wrote 'Young Guns' on spec because I really believed that the young age of these guys historically, the whole legend of Billy dying at 21, would attract a young staple of stars, and that would be the game-changer.
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Dying
Young Age
Attract
Billy
Guns
Legend
Historically
Staple
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I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly - write from your gut.
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Addict
Promise
Screenplays
Structure
Time Movies Your
Formula
Gut
Importantly
Slaves
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We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred 'Marco Polos,' came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy.
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Overlooked
Wire
Italy
Looked
Realized
Tapes
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Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession.
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Extinction
Native
Native American
Obsession
Research
Tracing
Twelve
Years Ago
Became
Horses
Pine
Ridge
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In 2007, I did a horseback trip across part of central Mongolia with my 13-year-old son - we encountered Marco Polo at all these historical places where Mongolian nomads would reference his accounts and his relationship with Kublai Khan.
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Accounts
Historical
Horseback
Polo
Son
Across
Central
Encountered
Places
Reference
Trip
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At a young age, when I was fascinated with China, I read 'The Travels of Marco Polo' and learned about this exciting, dramatic world he captured and reported on. He's so little known, but yet this mythology has survived that's so misrepresentative of his story.
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Captured
China
Dramatic
Fascinated
Mythology
Polo
Survived
Young Age
Age World Young
Learned
Reported
Travels
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As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.
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Creative
Creative Life
Enough
Remains
Screenplays
Life Fight Your
Writer
Books
Fight
Novels
Terms
Rewarding
Vastly
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We drove for 10 hours on rocky trails out into the central part of Mongolia in a Russian utility vehicle with no shock absorbers. Then we arrived at a remote area where we stayed in a yurt and waited to meet a horse wrangler who was scheduled to bring our rides.
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Horse
Hours
Shock
Trails
Utility
Vehicle
Area
Arrived
Bring
Central
Part
Drove
Meet
Remote
Rides
Rocky
Russian
Stayed
Waited
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If you understand the importance of developing a relationship with the director and making that director see that you're the best technical adviser and resource in the world on your subject, you'll be invited on set as a respected and integral part of the process.
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Adviser
Developing
Importance
Invited
Integral
Integral Part
Resource
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In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.
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Demand
Easier
Latitude
Novel
Prose
Structure
Characters
Internal
Screenplay
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Being on the ground in Mongolia and traveling with the horse culture and sleeping in yurts, I was able to pick up a lot of detail. But I brought in advisors to work with our horse master to make sure the fighting strategies both on the Chinese and Mongolian sides were very accurate.
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Able
Accurate
Chinese
Fighting
Horse
Sides
Sure
Advisor
Brought
Detail
Master
Pick
Sleeping
Strategies
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