"I often say that a lot of my job, as a screenwriter, is sort of being a stock picker, in that I need to figure out what movies are probably going to get made because otherwise I'm spending a lot of my time on something that's trapped in 12-point courier. So, having Tim's interest in doing a movie is a huge asset. But, not everything shoots. I'm always grateful when those things do happen."

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Source : Source: collider.com

John August

#Jobs Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Needs Quotes

“We meet a lot of people, we drink lots of stuff and have lots of fun”
“Lord, No one but you and I understands what faithfulness is. Do not let me die until, for them, all danger is driven away.”
“I love trainwrecks on live TV.”
“I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.”
“To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.”

Source : "The Classical Landscape Paintings of J.M.W. Turner". Book by Dennis Hugh Halloran, p. 75, 1970.
“I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.”
“The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.”
“I feel like we're all here on this planet, and intimacy is important. I can't bear small talk, it's awful. I want to get beyond that thing of discussing how the weather is a bit better today than it was yesterday, and how this is a nice restaurant. I want to get to what are the problems, what's really going on. Are you in love? Are you in a lot of pain? What's really going on in your life? I'm interested in that area, whether it's on stage or in real life.”

Source : "Simon Amstell Overshares". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2012.

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