Ernest Lehman Quotes
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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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
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You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have.
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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.
