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.

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

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

I like to say I don't believe in mystics. I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in destiny or kismet. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I believe in the possibility of everything.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

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.

Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.

For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock.

I am showing the Old West as it really was. Cinema takes violence from life. Not the other way around. Americans treat Westerns with too much rhetoric.

They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.

Kenneth Roberts (author)

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

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.

The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.

Everything we did was a first: first bath, first walk, first drive in the car. It was like we walked into an alternate universe that looked just like the old one, but all the rules were different and we had to relearn how to live.

Soleil Moon Frye

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)