Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators.


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I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I bel...
JACKSON BROWNE
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize ...
JACKSON BROWNE
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't ...
JACKSON BROWNE
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'l...
JACKSON BROWNE
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will l...
JACKSON BROWNE
Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it...
JACKSON BROWNE
One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.
JACKIE JACKSON
I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
JACKIE JACKSON
I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all...
JACKIE JACKSON
I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
JACKIE JACKSON
Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him ...
JACKIE JACKSON
My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
JACKIE JACKSON
What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That ...
IAN JACKSON
I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do i...
IAN JACKSON
I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going t...
IAN JACKSON
If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certa...
IAN JACKSON
I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general ...
IAN JACKSON
We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you...
IAN JACKSON
I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about...
PHIL JACKSON
A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportu...
JANET JACKSON
I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
STONEWALL JACKSON
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be...
JACKSON POLLOCK
I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
MICHAEL JACKSON
Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.
CURTIS JACKSON
Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we ...
CURTIS JACKSON
Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa...
PARIS JACKSON
I want to have a normal high-school experience.
PARIS JACKSON
I do have a regular childhood.
PARIS JACKSON