Eric Heisserer famous quotes

That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.
-- Eric Heisserer

#Self #Discipline #Life Is

The beauty with comics - and also the risk - is it is a far smaller number of voices. It's the writer and the artist and to a lesser extent the editor, who typically is the silent partner, if you've got a good enough team. Whatever you put out is the author's intent. You have to be able to defend that, of course. You have no one to hide behind, or no one to blame but yourselves, which I find refreshing because I've found in film too many times I've been blamed for other people's decisions.
-- Eric Heisserer

#Team #Artist #Voice

I don't worry about budget, at least not early on. I discovered that if you start worrying about budget, then you'll get half of whatever you're trying to worry about. You're constantly working yourself into a corner. So, you just shoot for the stars and then see what you get.
-- Eric Heisserer

#Stars #Worry #Trying

What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I'll always end up bending more toward optimism.
-- Eric Heisserer

#Writing #Optimism #Needs

As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.
-- Eric Heisserer

#Artist #Ends #Beacons

Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.
-- Eric Heisserer

#Luck #Kind #Creatures

Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.