31 quotes found
“Creativity is choice-making.”
“In comedy laughter settles all arguments.”
“Quality storytelling inspires quality dialogue.”
“Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.”
“All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.”
“Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.”
“True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.”
“Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.”
“What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.”
“Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.”
“Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ...”
“If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.”
“When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. When talen...”
“Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, c...”
“No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.”
“The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.”
“No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.”
“Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.”
“A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.”
“In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.”
“Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.”
“Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus e...”
“When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.”
