Nic Pizzolatto (Nicholas Austin Pizzolatto) Quotes

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

Nic Pizzolatto

• Character
• Story
• Demand

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Child
  • Model
  • Information

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movies

• A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Politics
  • Realist
  • Optimist

• Let's have some new cliches.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Funny
  • New
  • Some

• I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Want
  • You
  • Message

• I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Great
  • Real

• If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Discipline
  • Criticism

• The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Art
  • History
  • Light

• But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Money
  • Financial
  • Problems

• I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.

  

  Imran Khan
  • You
  • Possible
  • Fast

• I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Home
  • Job
  • Guy

• Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Marriage
  • Romantic
  • Nothing

• I have lost a lot of clothes over the years... Probably the oldest garment that I still have would be my Union Jack jacket from John Galliano's spring/summer 1993 show.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Lost
  • Years
  • Summer

• I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.

  

  Sarah Kane
  • People
  • Remember
  • Pain

• Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Success

• She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Men
  • Women
  • She

• Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because I'm a human being or because I'm an Irishman or both.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Character
  • Pain
  • Melancholy

• Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Forget
  • Grandmother
  • Grandchildren

• For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

  

  Nic Pizzolatto
  • Character
  • Story
  • Demand