Chris Terrio quotes
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“Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.”
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“And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and organizations make it hard to do the right thing sometimes.”
-- Chris TerrioSource : "'Argo' Screenwriter Explains the CIA Secrets and Surprises Behind the Film". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. Ocotber 15, 2012.
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“In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.”
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“You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.”
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“In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.”
-- Chris TerrioSource : "Yahoo! Original: ‘Argo’ writer Chris Terrio talks Ben Affleck, blue Wookies and ‘Breaking Bad’". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.yahoo.com. February 15, 2013.
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“The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.”
-- Chris TerrioSource : "'Argo' Screenwriter Explains the CIA Secrets and Surprises Behind the Film". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 15, 2012.
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“You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.”
-- Chris TerrioSource : "THR's Writer Roundtable: Osama bin Laden, Why 'Schindler's List' Is Irresponsible and When Judd Apatow Was a Dishwasher". Interview with Matthew Belloni and Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 14, 2012.
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“Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.”
-- Chris TerrioSource : Source: collider.com
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Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.524, Macmillan
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Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.188, The New Press
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“The last day of your life is still going to be a day.”
Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
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“Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.”
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Source : "Alexei Navalny: Russia's new rebel who has Vladimir Putin in his sights" by Tom Parfitt, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.
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