"For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones."

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“Listen, I'm not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don't be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated. Be tenacious. Be uncompromising. Be pissed. Be happy. Be sad.”
“Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.”
“Keep on being a star in your own right. Keep on defining yourself. Don't be defined by others.”

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“O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman whom Thou gavest me hast deceived me." This very same thing I myself now suffer, wretched and miserable, when I do not desire to be humbled, and to say with my whole soul that I myself am guilty of my perdition. But on the contrary I say: "That person over there inspired me to do or say this. He advised me and knocked me off the path." Woe is my poor soul which speaks such words filled with sin! O most shameless and irrational words of a shameless and irrational soul!”
“Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.”
“I see all sorts of things when I'm clearing my pipes.”
“If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.”
“To celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation means to be wrapped in a warm embrace.”

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