Diana Ossana Quotes (8 Quotes)


    A friend called me up and said there's a story in there you really need to read. So I read it, and I was just stunned, it just struck a chord in me. Then I woke up the next morning, and I was just emotionally exhausted, and I knew I had to read it again to see what had affected me so much. And it affected me even more in the second reading.

    He said it was a masterpiece. That's the only time in the 20 years that I've known him that he's agreed with me on the first time.

    It's a movie, I just don't know what they're so afraid of. Whatever preconceived notions you have, you need to set them aside, the film will shatter those notions. It really isn't what people are imagining in their head. It's a lot more encompassing.

    It simply tells a story about two rather unremarkable men and their tragedy. It doesn't wave a banner of triumph over any lifestyle. It is a story about life. A realistic story, and a very sad story.

    Michelle picked up on every beat in the story. She's from Montana, she has that background there are things she grasps intuitively. The phrase 'still waters run deep' completely applies to her.


    Not win awards, win people. Win audiences. I'm honestly not surprised people like it, but I'm rather startled by the widespread, rapid word-of-mouth. We both believed it would be a film that would eventually find its way.

    And it's still only 50 pages of the screenplay. It's only half of the screenplay. So we did have to make up the rest.

    One of the jobs of art is to inspire discussion, and Brokeback Mountain certainly has done that. It's like a window and a mirror. You're looking through a window at lives you may or may not have experienced. But it's a mirror in the sense we've all felt l


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