"I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did."

-- Harold Prince

“There is no such thing as love at first sight, Bryan. There's only sex at first sight.”
“I can't function without coffee and I cannot refuse chocolate. Drink I gave up years ago and don't miss it in the slightest. But I think I'd collapse without coffee.”
“Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and its hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.”
“But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.”
“There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.”
“Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.”

Source : John Katzenbach (2002). “The Analyst”
“Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds.”

Source : Bonnie Friedman (1993). “Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life”
“I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my process. It's really demented, but it actually works. When you are aiming really high and doing something new, you must be also prepared to fail, learn from your mistakes and begin with a new plan. More motivated than before.”

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