Carson McCullers Quotes
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
Quotes to Explore
-
A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
-
I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
-
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
-
Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
-
I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
-
If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
-
I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
-
If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
-
I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
-
Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
-
I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
-
When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
-
I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
-
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
-
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
-
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
-
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
-
Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.
-
No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland.
-
How does one get bored of life?
-
I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
-
An album, for me, is not just a commercial product. It's about presenting a world to people, for them to explore and enjoy. How they do that is up to them.
-
As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.
-
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
