"When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? It's a little tough.""

-- Thomas Bidegain

#Thinking Quotes #Directors Quotes #Stories Quotes

“If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ed Stetzer from Sep 02, 2009
“We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time.”
“Tomorrow isn't promised to any of us.”
“All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.”
“Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.”
“It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2010). “A Long Long Way”, p.230, Faber & Faber
“I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.”
“When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you have to go to the bathroom?”

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