Bruce Joel Rubin famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm not a structured writer. I have the carpet-laying theory which is you put it out there until there is a lump and you keep pushing the lump across the floor until the whole thing just lies flat. Every time you write there is going to be a bulge, something doesn't work and you have to find your way to get it to the other end.
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Movies are not the book. Movies are not even the screenplay. They are the movie.
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When I wrote my first film and then directed it and I looked at it for the first time on what's called an assembly, you look at this movie which is every scene you wrote, every line of dialogue you wrote and you want to kill yourself the minute you see it. It's like, 'How did I write something so horrible?'
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I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'
-- Bruce Joel Rubin
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
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White in the moon the long road lies.
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Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
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When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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