'High Concept' means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as 'Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins.' Or, 'Arnold is pregnant.'
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I love high concept movies, but they can only work if the source of inspiration is really human - if they're driven by pain and strong emotions. Once you connect the audience with that, then I swear you can take them on the craziest journey, and they'll come along.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Most of the pilots I choose do not have high-concept ideas, so for me it's not the idea as much as the execution of the idea, and if the idea, like you take a bar in Boston, that's not a high-concept idea. But if it's executed well, it makes a great show.
A concept is stronger than a fact.
Concept is what makes actors raise their game.
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.
I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on the given work. I always get the feeling that I am raking up the earth rather than laying down the concrete.
The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
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