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“It's much easier to cry or be angry, but to really laugh and genuinely be buoyant and laugh. That's hard if you don't really feel that way.”
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“Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.”
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“The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.”
Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited
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“You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer. It's very curious. He knows something they don't know. He knows how to write, and that's a subtle, disturbing quality he has. Some directors without even knowing it, resent the writer in the same way Bob Hope might resent the fact he ain't funny without twelve guys writing the jokes. The director knows the script he is carrying around on the set every day was written by someone, and that's just not something that all directors easily digest.”
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“I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are where you really have to listen to the audience and really feel how they're responding. I found our test screenings incredibly useful.”
Source : "Director Stephen Daldry Talks EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE and THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY Miniseries". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 17, 2012. 
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“Excellence Matters. Excellent people. Excellent vision. Excellent marketing. Excellent strategies.”
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“I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.”
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“Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.”
Source : "The Moguls". Book by Norman J. Zierold, 1969.
