David Koepp famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.
-- David Koepp

#Years #Vastness #Evolution
Johnny sort of popped into my head midway through the first draft, and he wouldn't leave. But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. In the first half of the movie, this guy is in the house not doing anything. I really needed an actor who's inventive and who will make enough idiosyncratic choices to make it entertaining to watch. And let's face it, Johnny Depp could make a nap interesting to watch.
-- David Koepp

#Naps #Interesting #Choices

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism,

David Koepp famous quotes

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