Quotes About Setting

There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.

Although most earlier versions of pastoral had been set in never-never lands, and although The Tempest contains only one allusion to the actual New World, its setting is not wholly fanciful. We begin with a commonplace event of the age: a ship caught in a storm and beached on an uninhabited island. It is like an Elizabethen news report.

the truth we have to tell and the things we have to do are too unique to fit within a usual job setting.

Over the years I've heard some attempts at explanation, and I've jotted them down: • A combination of character, setting, page turning. • A distinctive style, like a Sergio Leone film. • It's who you are. • Personality on the page. • It's something written from your deepest truth. • Your expression as an artist. You'll

before them an indifferent house, standing low, and hemmed in by the barns and buildings of a farm-yard.

Intricacy that counts is mainly intricacy at eye level, change in the rise of ground, groupings of trees, openings leading to various focal points—in short, subtle expressions of difference. The subtle differences in setting are then exaggerated by the differences in use that grow up among them.

Unlike traditional nursing homes, Green House homes provide elders with a high quality of life and quality of care in a setting that feels like a real home. By altering the facility size, interior design, staffing patterns and service-delivery method, the Green House model provides residents better, safer and more personalized care.

Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.

Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true.

I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.

In the group setting, I had a role to play, it was like being on a team. In a solo setting I'm forced to pull out all the stops.

I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in fact, a character - a living breathing thing with personality and backstory. The way stories come to life, at least for me, is when these elements commune in relationship to one another.

I definitely storyboard, but I only start once I have cast and location. I like to find the world first.

Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight.

verdad es que el entorno que te rodea sí importa.»

Through his honor I conquered him. For these peasants carry their honor in their hands so that they may constantly consult it; this same honor that once felt so much at home in the city but now has taken refuge in a more rural setting.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

For me, I wouldn't mind if I never did another Olympics; nothing can beat London. The setting, the support, the military people. From start to finish, it was such fun. I had the most amazing time.

Chicago is a fantastic city, and I can easily see the Olympics setting themselves right here in Chicago.

The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.