Screenwriter Quotes

Bernie: Can you help me? I have lost my sense of direction.
Kermit: Have you tried Hare Krishna?

Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.

There was laughter in the back of the theatre, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

George S. Kaufman

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

David Adams Richards

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.

Michael Cunningham

People here always want to grab a simple camera and a table light, get their cousin and shoot a movie. You can't say that's wrong, but it's not cinema.

With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence — the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality — to perfection.

Damian Pettigrew

When you go down a dark alley and you feel that tingling across the back of your neck, that's not just a bad feeling, that's a biological gift from God - the Gift of Fear...when you ignore that gift - when you go down the dark alley and say, Y'know, I'm sure it'll be okay - that's when you find real pain.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

I think for me anyway, the most successful horror movies that work are the ones that can create characters who you care about and that have characteristics that resonate with you and I think that is highly important, because if you can create characters that are likeable and people you can relate to, to me it makes the scares that much more scarier.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

William Boyd (writer)

The goal was just to finish the movie and get it out in a few theaters. To think that decades later people would still be thinking and talking about it, I could have never imagined.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

Roberto Rossellini

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

Lawrence Wright

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

You have no idea the power generated each time somebody is told a story. When a conscious, sentient mind willingly ignores what is real, what is fact, and instead chooses to invest in people and places that never existed...It's magnificent.

The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

In every living soul, a spirit cries for expression—perhaps this plaintive, wailing song of Jazz is, after all, the misunderstood utterance of a prayer.

Samson Raphaelson

dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank you for my life.

John Patrick Shanley

There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

Caryl Churchill

When I heard I was up for it, obviously I wanted to win. It's really an honour. I love playing for my country.

Always know and remember that you are more than your physical body.

The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.

William Saroyan