You need someone who has a really good way of enabling trust in the cast and crew, or the cast particularly, to allow them the confidence to stretch themselves to get the performance that you're going to need to provide all of the emotional up and downs in the film.
Nicholas SparksSometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
Nicholas SparksIt was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would.
Nicholas SparksTo be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was.
Nicholas SparksI breathe deeply, taking in the fresh spring air. Though Beaufort has changed and I have changed, the air itself has not. Itโs still the air of my childhood, the air of my seventeenth year, and when I finally exhale, Iโm fifty-seven once more. But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking towards the sky, knowing thereโs one thing I havenโt told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.
Nicholas Sparks