"When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie."

#Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes #Negative Quotes

“Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?”

Source : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.352, Penguin
“Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.”
“In The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.”
“I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.”
“The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.”
“Because thereâ€™s a clock attached to every beautiful woman. From the second she comes into her own, she begins to decline, because she begins to age. Aging is every beautiful womanâ€™s kryptonite. And so, yes, itâ€™s ridiculous and no, you donâ€™t have much time and of course itâ€™s not fair. Those three statements are the essence of beauty.”
“One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening to the prayers of his finest creation. Another person believes that life, in all its baroque complexity, is a chemical aberration that will briefly decorate the surface of a ball of rock spinning somewhere among a billion galaxies. And the two of them could talk for hours and find no great difference between one another, for neither set of beliefs make us kinder or wiser.”
“I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.”

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