Brian Koppelman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.
-- Brian Koppelman

#Inspirational #Writing #Thinking
Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.
-- Brian Koppelman

#Practice #Everyday #Trying
Hollywood is a land of self-invention.
-- Brian Koppelman

#Self #Land #Hollywood
For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.
-- Brian Koppelman

#Artist #Lines #Belief
What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.
-- Brian Koppelman

#Journey #Curiosity #Fascination
The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for rejection and find them with merit, you can address them; if without merit, you can ignore them.
-- Brian Koppelman

#People #Rejection #Missing
If you are rigorous in your own R&D in whatever your area is, you do your own testing, and you really stress-test the thing that you do, I think that gives you a tremendous amount of inner fortitude when you come up against the monolith.
-- Brian Koppelman

#Stress #Thinking #Giving
All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.
-- Brian Koppelman

#Book #Bullshit #Watches

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

Brian Koppelman famous quotes

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