"All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide."

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Source : "Six Second Screenplay Tips from Screenwriter Brian Koppelman (on Vine!)" by Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. September 27, 2013.

Brian Koppelman

#Book Quotes #Bullshit Quotes #Watches Quotes

“I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.Even a spider has the right to a mate.”
“I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.”
“I try to ï¬nd clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing a biography, you're trying to understand your subject in the same way that you try to understand one of your friends, and that effort at understanding is always very imperfect.”
“When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manualâ€”even a one-word manualâ€”then it is a failure, poorly designed.”

Source : "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Ch. 4, p. 87; regarding doors labeled "Push" and "Pull", 2002.
“Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it is horrible! - that one man may own twenty millions of money, and another has to commit a crime to keep the life in his miserable body. And if I were wealthy, I'd be a spendthrift! It's the spendthrifts who are the real friends of the poor. Some of their money filters through to the very lowest classes ...”
“I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.”
“Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop a logical sequence of movements, a technique which is smooth, graceful and in rhythm with the rest of the game.”

Source : "One on One with Jacques Plante". Legends of Hockey.net, May 24, 2005.

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