Quotes by Producers - Page 21

...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or later you come near something that you're supposed to be doing with your life and it's like a magnet. It attracts.
Stephen King
I know having a job can sometimes be very challenging, but not having one can be too.
Chris Mentillo
DON'T BE JEALOUS OF OTHERS - EVER. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAD TO DO TO GET TO WHERE THEY ARE.
Chris Mentillo
You Don't Have To Be The Best Writer In The World To Become A Successful Author. However, You Do Need To Sell Lots of Books.
Chris Mentillo
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
Rod Serling
No matter what I tried to do or become in life, the macabre followed me everywhere I went: In my house, in my head, in my nightmares, on the roughest streets, in the most desolate corn fields, to even areas where many mortals refuse to go.” Until finally one day it dawned on me, and then it all clicked – why fight it.
Chris Mentillo
You Never Have To Worry About Anything, If You Just Tell The Truth.
Chris Mentillo
He sometimes believed that the compulsion to make fiction was no more than a bulwark against confusion, maybe even insanity. It was a desperate imposition of order by people able to find that precious stuff only in their minds . . . never in their hearts.
Stephen King
Some of The Best Writers in The World Died Penniless.
Chris Mentillo
Believe None of What You Hear, And Only Half of What You See.
Chris Mentillo
When Trying To Achieve Your Dreams, Never Let Anyone or Anything Stand in Your Way
Chris Mentillo
Never Take Life For Granted.
Chris Mentillo
There Is A Fine Line Between A Man of God And One Who Serves The Devil.
Chris Mentillo
Even The Smallest Candle Burns Brighter In The Dark.
Chris Mentillo
You Never Have To Worry About Forgetting Anything, If You Just Tell The Truth.
Chris Mentillo
I am absolutely convinced without any uncertainty that the old adage, History Repeats Itself is a valid assertion.
Chris Mentillo
When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story.
Stephen King
Having money is about handling it the correct way. In my lifetime, I've both lost and made millions.
Chris Mentillo
You only fail in life when you decide to give up.
Chris Mentillo
She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.
David Benioff
So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxieties and insecurities and taking them upon ourselves. We’re sitting in the darkness beyond the flickering warmth of your fire, cackling into our caldrons and spitting out spider webs of words, all the time sucking the sickness from your minds and spewing it out into the night.
Stephen King
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Rod Serling
Valuables. That was a hot one, Richards thought, unbuttoning his shirt. He had an empty wallet with a few pictures of Sheila and Cathy, a receipt for a shoe sole he had replaced at the local cobbler's six months ago, a keyring with no keys on it except for the doorkey, a baby sock that he did not remember putting in there, and the package of Blams he had gotten from the machine.
Stephen King
Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
Stephen King
When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal.
Marquita Burke-DeJesus
While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her.
Marquita Burke-DeJesus
There's darkness everywhere. You just can't see it because the sun is such an attention-whore.
Jason Gann
I would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.
Oprah Winfrey
She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar.
Stephen King
He didn’t like the way things were going.There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn.
Stephen King
Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
Stephen King
Writing is a lonely pursuit. The only thing working is imagination and hands.The only difference between writing and masturbation is one is presumably intended for a mass audience.
Mark Bell
People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.
Stephen King
You can never be too thin or too rich. And if you don't believe it you were never really fat or really poor.
Stephen King
By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'.
Stephen King
She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.
Stephen King
You can't beat me. I have the mind of a warlock with adonis DNA. Winning!
Charlie Sheen
He looked up at the stars as the storm closed in and saw them extinguished, one-by-one, until just two remained. They glimmered and shone through gaps in the clouds like two great eyes in the darkness, burning on a demon’s face that chased him across the sea.
Brooke Burgess
You have come from the shadow of the heroin and the shadow of your brother, my friend. Come from the shadow of yourself, if you dare.
Stephen King
Don't waste inspiration
Salman Khan
She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.
Robert Ludlum
Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.
Tyler Perry
What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
Tyler Perry
There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?
Ellen DeGeneres
... good advice was sometimes easier to give than receive.
Stephen King
I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one question and one answer. 'What happened?' the reader asks. 'This is what happened,' the writer responds. 'This...and this...and this, too.' Keep it simple. It's the only sure way home.
Stephen King
I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
The Director's Role: You are the obstetrician. You are not the parent of this child we call the play. You are present at its birth for clinical reasons, like a doctor or midwife. Your job most of the time is simply to do no harm.When something does go wrong, however, your awareness that something is awry--and your clinical intervention to correct it--can determine whether the child will thrive or suffer, live or die.
Frank Hauser
Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.
George Harrison
Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.
Stephen King
If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish
Mark Frost
I don't remember Sherlock Holmes ever mentioning what you are supposed to do when you've eliminated everything improbable, and nothing is left.
Donnie Eichar
When you’retwenty-one, life is a roadmap.It’s only when you get to betwenty-five or so that youbegin to suspect you’ve beenlooking at the map upsidedown, and not until you’reforty are you entirely sure.
Stephen King
But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.
Stephen King
She looked beautiful,standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, and lift her, and carry her into some untroubled future.Instead, I left her where she was. That's not the world we live in, she'd said, and how right she was,
Stephen King
We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough.Close enough.
Stephen King
A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.
Mark Frost
Mysteries precede humankind, envelop us and draw us forward into exploration and wonder. Secrets are the work of humankind, a covert and often insidious way to gather, withhold or impose power. Do not confuse the pursuit of one with the manipulation of the other.
Mark Frost
A secret's only a secret as long as you keep it. Once you tell someone it loses all its power -- for good or ill -- like that, it's just another piece of information. But a real mystery can't be solved, not completely. It's always just out of reach, like a light around the corner; you might catch a glimpse of what it reveals, feel its warmth, but you can't know the heart of it, not really. That's what gives it value: It can't be cracked, it's bigger than you and me, bigger than everything we know.
Mark Frost
I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.
Steve Hamilton