Hampton Fancher famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something that's unsayable about one's incarcerated existence, and it's fun to come up with words to represent that condition, and it's fun to pull the tail of absurdity and rile it up, where you giggle at what you do or you get enthralled and in the short story.
-- Hampton Fancher

#Fun #Poetic #Existence
Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams. You're dreaming when you're awake: you're sitting on the subway and you look around, and you can think of sinister things that are kind of delightful to think of because they're not really happening, but they are in your mind. They're about wishes, desires - sexy, dangerous, hopeful, the way it could be, maybe.
-- Hampton Fancher

#Sexy #Dream #Thinking
Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.
-- Hampton Fancher

#Scare #Impatience #Deadline
I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.
-- Hampton Fancher

#Writing #Sometimes #Wonder
Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.
-- Hampton Fancher

#Beach #Writing #Architecture
It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.
-- Hampton Fancher

#Writing #Huxley #Great Writers
I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like a charlatan because what I was teaching I probably couldn't do.
-- Hampton Fancher

#Teaching #Writing #Mean
I went to LA because my parents were there and somebody asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. It was easy, it wasn't easy to do, but I fell into it. I made a living as an actor for a long time, but I didn't think of myself as an actor, I thought I was a writer.
-- Hampton Fancher

#Thinking #Long #Parent
I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they were, so that delusion went on for a long time. Maybe it's still going on, only somehow I sucked some people in. It was a long time of writing things that didn't make sense in the real world, and I'm embarrassed about them now in a jocular way.
-- Hampton Fancher

#Stupid #Real #Writing

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
I would love to work with Salman. We have a great tuning so if we work together, it will be great fun. But till the time we don't get a good script, a script that excites both of us, we can't work together.
Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
My dad was so much fun growing up.
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.
By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.

Hampton Fancher famous quotes

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