"I counted it up once. I think I have written 45 full screenplays. Of those, maybe 15 have been shot, in some form. That's a pretty good track record, but it's not 100%. It is frustrating that, as a screenwriter, I've seen all those movies and they don't exist in the real world. They're juts inside my head and on those pages."

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Source : Source: collider.com

John August

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Track Quotes

“I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.”
“I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.”
“No news is good news. No journalists is even better.”
“Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.”
“You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.”
“My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.”
“Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will â€“ that is all, really, education is about, should be about.”

Source : Fay Weldon (2011). “Letters to Alice”, p.54, Hachette UK
“The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.”

Source : "Debriefing: Charlayne Hunter-Gault on Jacob Zuma". Interview with Samantha Henig, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2010.

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