Screenwriter Quotes

In Tantrism, the first thing is having the experience of touch, of profound contact with things, with the universe, without mental commotion. Everything begins there: touching the universe deeply. When you touch deeply, you no longer need to let go. That occurs naturally.

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

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

Nothing that the law-makers or the law-breakers or the MCC or the Board of Control or any conferences or county committees or pressmen or captains or players can do to it or have done to it over the years - nothing can affect cricket's basic worth or irresistible attraction.

I like the idea of stopping mid-sentence, like Graham Greene.

There are no available men in their thirties in New York. Giuliani had them removed along with the homeless.

Michael Patrick King

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Charles Eastman

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

I've never been one for late nights, which is why I have always preferred making films to theatre. A play takes over your life: you start to feel sick at lunchtime and by mid-afternoon you're wishing for a bomb scare so the whole thing will be called off. Of course, if the evening goes well and you get the applause then it's wonderful. We're a strange bunch, we actors.

Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.

Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

All men who first touch with words go much further afterwards with their hands.

Antonio Skarmeta

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.

The director of a film is treated by his staff the way a group of passengers would treat a psychotic ship's captain during a typhoon: namely, with respect and apprehension.

Marshall Brickman

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives.

She is a phenomenon of nature, like Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon. You can't talk to it. It can't talk to you. All you can do is stand back and be awed by it.

Of Marilyn Monroe

Nunnally Johnson

The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.

Robert Anderson

Flo: I've never been so insulted in my life.
Hackenbush: Well, it's early yet.

She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.

Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.