Screenwriter Quotes

There's nothing like an airport for bringing you down to earth.

Richard Gordon (English author)

People come to Washington believing it's the centre of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to the engine.

Richard N. Goodwin

Greed—for lack of a better word—is good. Greed is right. Greed works.

More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.

Morgan Spurlock

She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear.

Marilyn Suzanne Miller

I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.

I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you find the strength to start all over again.

If you carry a 00 number it means you're licensed to kill, not get killed.

Johanna Harwood

You finally, really did it—you maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

All my life I've wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.

It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesn't happen very often.

There are some men who possess a quality which goes way beyond romantic or even sexual appeal, a quality which literally enslaves. It has very little to do with looks and nothing at all to do with youth, because there are some quite mature and unathletic specimens who have it. It's an expression in the eyes, an aura of being in control, and responsible, or something easy and powerful in the stance, or who knows.

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.

Grégoire Delacourt

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

The film-director is not a creator but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

The Internet has come to resemble an enormous used book store with volumes stacked on shelves and tables and overflowing onto the floor, and a continuous stream of new books being added helter-skelter to the piles.

Robert Roy Pool

No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

Julian Fellowes

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

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

Melina Marchetta

Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to getterms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists.

Olivia Goldsmith

It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Nobody ever notices the host at a party, until the drink runs out.

Anthony Gilbert (author)