"When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is."

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Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 13, 2009.

John Patrick Shanley

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses looking like birds I'd rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in real life.”
“With dogs, you don't need gurus. Dogs are forever in the moment. They are always a tidal wave of feelings, and every feeling is some variant of love.”

Source : Cynthia Heimel (1995). “When Your Phone Doesn't Ring, It'll be Me”, p.37, Atlantic Monthly Press
“When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.”
“Not everyoneâ€™s a lifer in this world, but what separates the wheat from the chaff is intellect. Intellect is a true indication of taste. Some smart kids are standing in these EDM festivals, in the mud and heat and sick, and theyâ€™re thinking, â€œYeah, this is fine for now, but this canâ€™t be it foreverâ€. Thereâ€™s got to be something better â€“ but they have to find it for themselves. Thatâ€™s the next generation right there.”
“Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.”

Source : The Reflex, Oct. 1927
“Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it.”

Source : "The dinosaur’s fresh meat". www.economist.com. April 6, 2013.
“It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.”

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