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.Ernest Lehman
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
Viggo Mortensen -
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel -
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.
Queen Latifah -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser -
I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
Iain Glen -
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul
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The audience has always been my best director.
Eartha Kitt -
I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
Carla Gallo -
Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
Quentin Tarantino -
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben -
If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
Earl Hamner, Jr.
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
Gary Sinise -
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
Daniel Gilbert -
I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.
Hallie Ephron -
I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
Barry Hannah -
I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
R. Kelly -
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Harper Lee
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A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
Natasha Richardson -
If your gonna drop out of school / tough grades are not your goal / then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.
Carlos Mencia -
People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'
Sid Caesar -
Parker: When can you start? Rainie: I can start tomorrow if you'd like. My schedule is pretty much open. All I have to keep me at home is Thomas. Parker: Ah. It figures that there'd be a man in the picture. You're too lovely to be unattached. Rainie: Thomas is a cat.
Catherine Anderson -
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.
Ernest Lehman