Quotes by Kelly Masterson - Page 1

As a writer, I'm limitless.
Kelly Masterson / Screenwriter
Limitless
Writer
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I came to success very late in life.
Kelly Masterson / Screenwriter
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I am always drawn to father/son stories.
Kelly Masterson / Screenwriter
Always I Am Am
Drawn
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Success, to me, is something new and vibrant.
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Something New
Vibrant
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All my work is always that exploration of human nature.
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Exploration
Human Nature
Nature Work Always
All My Work
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Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.
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Good Story
Define
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I'm not always interested in Hollywood norms and boy-next-door kind of characters.
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Norms
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I am me. I have to define myself. I'm going to stand up at the back of the train and take control of my future.
Kelly Masterson / Screenwriter
My Future
Take Control
Train
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'Snowpiercer' was out of this world. It gave me a chance to do something I'd never done before, to create a whole new world.
Kelly Masterson / Screenwriter
New World
Chance World Me
Whole New World
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I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create a new world.
Kelly Masterson / Screenwriter
Opportunity
Fiction
New World
Science Fiction
World
Science World New
Hoping
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It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.
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Character
Children
Giving
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The thrill of doing 'Good People' is I love those kinds of stories, and I'm good at them, and it's wonderful to see that material given to a terrific director and a terrific cast.
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Doing Good
Good People
Terrific
Thrill
Love Good People
Love Good Good People
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I had written for the theater and didn't know that I knew how to write for film. Ultimately, I think it's just trusting your voice, trusting your characters, and then telling them in a different medium.
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Medium
Trusting
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I wrote a few unsuccessful screenplays before I wrote 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.' I wrote them as television plays that never got made. I'm glad I wrote them - I think it was a good experience.
Kelly Masterson / Screenwriter
Glad
Screenplays
Unsuccessful
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Nelson McCormack on 'Killing Kennedy' was really terrific because I wrote the script, and he had some terrific ideas. We went over the script together, and I was with him on set. So it was a collaborative effort.
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Nelson
Terrific
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None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen.
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Unusual
Valuable
Commercial Success
Same Thing
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I think of events like the Challenger and 9/11 - events that move us so much that we never quite get over them. So it's important to go back and relive those feelings in order to remember how important those events were to us.
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Challenger
Relive
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Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor, and it comes alive in a way that you didn't expect.
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Instruments
Page
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Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page, or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor and it comes alive, in a way that you didn't expect.
Kelly Masterson / Screenwriter
Actors
Different
Giving
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I certainly like the actor to have as much lee-way as possible. In the same way that director Bong was generous enough to let me create, you have to do that for actors, as well, and let them use the tools they have, and part of that is their own brains and their own words.
Kelly Masterson / Screenwriter
Brain
Directors
Tools
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The work I did on 'Killing Kennedy' was very meticulous and, in some ways, actually tedious. It was hard work because there is so much known about John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. To try to distill that into a clear narrative that's interesting and tells two great stories was a real challenge.
Kelly Masterson / Screenwriter
Hard Work
Meticulous
Narrative
Work Great Hard Work
Great Stories
Lee
Oswald
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Stage is so important because it teaches me how to convey character with words - how to convey how a character reacts by the way they appear on stage. I can usually tell a playwright from someone who has never written for the stage. Did the character work? Did the dialogue reveal who the character is?
Kelly Masterson / Screenwriter
Dialogue
Work Character Me
Appear
Convey
Reveal
Teaches
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I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I'm disappointed that indie film is as hard as it is to work in now. It's hard to get things done, but that sort of work is being done on TV. That's what I do; that's what I write. It's what I love, and hopefully, that's what my future's going to be.
Kelly Masterson / Screenwriter
Being Done
Disappointed
Love Future Work
Love Work Future
Indie
Indie Film
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