A Quote by Damien Chazelle

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.

Damien Chazelle

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Damien Chazelle
American - Director
Born: January 19, 1985

I think the biggest advice I can offer is don't just pick one story and stop, write as much as you can, as many stories as you can. The best thing about being a writer is, a writer's craft is nearly perfect because a writer can go anywhere and do his craft.

Dwayne McDuffie

I think what Hollywood is learning at large is that there is profitability in stories that are culturally specific and that you can only address the universal through the specific.

Sterling K. Brown

Often the most specific stories end up being the most universal.

Measha Brueggergosman

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

The Souvenir is an incredibly specific story, but people recognise the universal in it. Because, that's how stories work.

Tom Burke

'Baahubali' was a film that was never done before. Rajamouli sir was my biggest inspiration because he lives in the smallest house and drives the smallest cars, but he makes the biggest films ever. He taught me the art of analysing your own strengths, and I take inspiration from him.

Prabhas

They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.

John C. Maxwell

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.

Ralph Ellison

I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists.

Don Miguel Ruiz

So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

Gayle Forman

I really believe that fiction functions best when stories are allowed to develop in an organic way, so I didn't set out to deliver a specific message.

Karen Thompson Walker

I do believe you have a wound too. I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone. I do believe it is the thing about you that must be hidden and protected, it is the thing that must be tap danced over five shows a day, it is the thing that won't be interesting to other people if revealed. It is the thing that makes you weak and pathetic. It is the thing that truly, truly, truly makes loving you impossible. It is your secret, even from yourself. But it is the thing that wants to live.

Charlie Kaufman

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

Emma Stone

Sometimes your worst hits in life wind up being your best advantage. If only you could believe that when you're getting hit.

Laila Ali

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