Quotes by Screenwriters - Page 7

It's quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person- beguiled enchanted.
Mary Chase
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
When you have a baby you set off an explosion in your marriage and when the dust settles your marriage is different from what it was. Not better necessarily not worse necessarily but different.
Nora Ephron
The immigrant who comes to Canada really sees the country much more as a whole. He doesn't know the nuances which are so important and so dearly beloved by the Torontonian or the Montrealer.
Brian Moore
To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.
David Cronenberg
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Raymond Chandler
Personally I think any more than two or three kids is not a family it's a litter.
Tracey Ullman
I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.
Rita Mae Brown
I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her.
Woody Allen
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred.
Woody Allen
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen
Some guy hit my fender the other day and I said unto him "Be fruitful and multiply." But not in those words.
Woody Allen
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
Arthur Somers Roche
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
When I was very young I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too that I didn't show more promise at it or I might have been an automobile dealer.
King Vidor
The most valuable gift I ever received was ... the gift of insecurity ... my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on the road where we had to earn our bread.
Lillian Gish
My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.
King Vidor
Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble and you'll probably make it through the next one.
Ruth Gordon
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To show that I could.
Roman Polanski
Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.
Ronald Jeans
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
Gore Vidal
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Ingmar Bergman
Film-making has become a kind of hysterical pregnancy.
Richard Lester
Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth left to itself it sweeps in like the tide.
Fay Weldon
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.
Neil Gaiman
The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and ideas, the same mass-produced education that did not educate but only pasted a veneer of catchwords over ignorance. Why do you want to bring that back?
Leigh Brackett
Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.
George R.R. Martin
And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.
Mike Carey
Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?
Stephen King
I wish something would happen to me, something that would show me exactly how cruel and jealous and vengeful I can be. Then I could go back to gentleness because I chose it over brutality for its own sake, not because I didn't have the courage to be cruel. I might even like cruelty. I doubt very much that I would, but I ought to find out.
Peter S Beagle
...some of it's how he acts like he's King Shit of Turd Mountain, but mostly it's that he's sneaky, and he likes to hurt
Stephen King
Happiness is a beautiful fruit that tastes of cruelty.
Agnes Varda
I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice.
Neal Shusterman
You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.
Neil Gaiman
We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.
George R.R. Martin
We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.
Terry Hayes
Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?
Mamoru Oshii
...the single ingredient in American literature that distinguishes it from other literatures of the world is a kind of giddy, illogical hopefulness. It is quite technically sophisticated while remaining ideologically naïve.
John Irving
The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.
Cormac McCarthy
I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. "Roland would have never touched me like that." Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No- the soul of a man.
Neal Shusterman
Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness.- Camille Preaker
Gillian Flynn
The universe rewards action.
Sheridan Jobbins
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barba
Neil Gaiman
We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.
Neil Gaiman
My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
David Mamet
Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night.
Neil Gaiman
Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of night.
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman on librarians as knowledge navigators over time.“And information was hard to find. And it was hard to find because it was like a flower growing in a desert – you had a long way to walk, but a librarian could take you to the flower. Now it’s more like flowers growing in the Amazon jungle and you’re trying to find a specific flower,” Gaiman said. “Anyone who has spent 5 minutes Googling for information and just sees the amount of noise out there starts to realize that actually someone who knows what they’re doing is incredibly useful. And librarians know what they’re doing.
Neil Gaiman
Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open.
Neil Gaiman
THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
Tom Stoppard
You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.
Ray Bradbury
Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.
Neil Gaiman
It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.
Neil Gaiman
Hmmm... that's interesting.""What?""There seems to be a gentleman walking towards us with a shotgun.
Derek Landy
Just a few questions for you, Mr. Dunne. Or Kenny. Can I call you Kenny? I feel we've become friends in these past few seconds. Can I call you Kenny?
Derek Landy
We watch television and we play music, but mostly we've found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?"Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice."He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out.They both let go, laughing."Naw," Plight said," we just play board games.
Derek Landy
What are you doing?""I'm, uh, acting normal.""No you're not. You're acting like someone pretending to be normal. Stop pretending and start acting, but don't act like you're not pretending, that'll make it worse.
Derek Landy
Promises are like assholes," Elsbeth pipes up. "They stink when you put your nose in them.
Jake Bible