Dan Futterman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
-- Dan Futterman

#Silly #Dumb #Shooting
I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
-- Dan Futterman

#Bars #Bar Mitzvah #Raised
I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
-- Dan Futterman

#Bombay #Walks
Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.
-- Dan Futterman

#Writing #Mind #Actors

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.
Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. His passing and shooting is of the highest level and heâ€™s the most consistent and naturally gifted player weâ€™ve had for a long, long time.
If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, Iâ€™d have been shooting them all my life.
When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it.
Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

Dan Futterman famous quotes

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